I 84 ANIMAL PAINTERS 



" Woburn Sheep Shearing," painted in 1804; 

 this work vies with " An Agricultural Show " in 

 historical interest, containing no fewer than eighty- 

 eight portraits of celebrated agriculturists. The 

 work which is in the Woburn Abbey collection was 

 engraved in aquatint by the artist himself. 



Garrard's pictures, though very frequently en- 

 graved, rarely found their way into the serial 

 publications which were the means of making so 

 many paintings of sport and allied matters known 

 to the world at large. One picture in the Sporting 

 Magazine and one in the New Sporting Magazine 

 complete the list of these. The former was a por- 

 trait of " Betty Bloss," a mare, which at six years 

 old went totally blind, but was ultimately cured. 

 In her prime she was capable of trotting 17 miles 

 in the hour carrying ten stone; of galloping 22 miles 

 an hour, under eight stone ; and of travelling 120 

 miles in twelve hours on the road. The artist 

 sent altogether fourteen works to the exhibitions 

 of the British Institution and nine to the Suffolk 

 Street galleries. 



We must revert for a moment to Garrard's 

 achievements in sculpture. In 18 19 in the 

 Sculpture Room at the British Institution, Garrard 

 exhibited models of equestrian statues of the Duke 

 of Wellington and Sir John Moore, and at the 

 Royal Academy in the same year he showed four 



