GEORGE GARRARI1. A.R.A. l8l 



described by a modern authority as luminous and 

 powerful in colour ; the canvas possesses additional 

 interest in that the figures are portraits of men 

 prominent in the agricultural world of the day. 



The portrait of a horse named Soldier was 

 engraved by S. Aiken— size of plate i8f inches by 

 1 4-J- inches — and published in January, 1793, "by 

 G. Garrard and Mr. Gilpin Knightsbridge, No. 43, 

 Little Britain." 



Archibald, ninth Duke of Hamilton and Bran- 

 don, was one of the patrons for whom Garrard 

 executed many pictures, among them a portrait of 

 "The Duke on a Cover Hack" with a foxhound 

 in front. This canvas shows admirably the dress 

 of the period ; the action of the horse is exceedingly 

 well presented ; the work was engraved in mezzo 

 tint, the plate measuring 23 inches by 174 inches, 

 the artist himself being the publisher in 1797. 



Two of his pictures, " Coach Horses " and 

 " Chaise Horses " were engraved in mezzotint by 

 J. Young, size of plates 23 inches by 16 inches; 

 these, dedicated to Sir John Leicester, Bart., were 

 published by John Jeffreys, London, 1798. Plate 

 I shows a grand pair of horses, fully seventeen 

 hands high, with cropped ears and short, nicked 

 tails ; they are harnessed and two men quaintly 

 attired in knee breeches, buckled shoes, wigs and 

 turned up hats are preparing to attach them to a 



