196 ANIMAL PAINTERS 



Parkhurst, Esq., of Catesby Abbey, Northampton- 

 shire. The canvas is a large one, measuring 6 feet 

 square : Mr. Parkhurst is on a grey horse, and 

 capping his hounds on to the Hne of a fox. An 

 engraving by Mr. Babbage from this picture faces 

 this page: the easy and workmanHke seat of the rider 

 arrests attention in the reproduction ; indeed the 

 whole pose is admirable, recalling the touch of 

 Snyders, the Dutch artist. Mr. Parkhurst was a 

 remarkably good-looking man, and appears at his 

 best in pink with the powdered hair usual at that 

 period ; he was known as " Handsome Jack," and 

 after accession to his estates joined many of Colonel 

 Thornton's wild and extravagant exploits, until he 

 ran through his fortune, which did not take long to 

 accomplish. About the year 1800 he married the 

 widow of Sir Griffith Boynton, Bart., who had died 

 leaving her with three sons ; Mr. Parkhurst brought 

 up his stepsons, Francis, Griffith and Henry, in 

 every sort of vice, and it is probable that the succes- 

 sion of each in turn to the baronetcy was due to 

 the ill-health caused by excesses. 



On 1st January, 1783, Geo. Garrard, from 

 Sawrey Gilpin's address, published an engraving by 

 Wm. Ward of Gilpin's portrait of Lord Derby's Sir 

 Peter Teazle; size of plate, iS^- inches by 14 

 inches. Sawrey Gilpin painted a portrait of the 

 famous racehorse, PotSos, which was engraved by 



