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than sporting. At this latter date he was residing 

 at Marlborough, in Wiltshire, and thenceforward 

 until the year 1830 he would seem to have had no 

 fixed abode : he dwelt sometimes at Marlborough, 

 sometimes at Reading, and sometimes at High 

 Wycombe, his London address being given as 

 " Messrs. Tattersall's, Grosvenor Place," through 

 which firm his dwelling-place was always to be 

 discovered. 



Nine or ten years' residence in country localities 

 where sport, fox-hunting particularly, might be 

 enjoyed, naturally imbued Hancock with sporting 

 tastes ; and he has left evidence of his proclivities 

 in numerous pictures. Between the years 18 19 and 

 1847 he exhibited at the Royal Academy twenty- 

 three works ; and though these no doubt include 

 many of his best efforts, it is noteworthy that the 

 portraits of racehorses (a class of work which 

 formed one of his specialities) are not represented 

 among them. He did not confine his exhibits to 

 the Royal Academy ; fifty-five paintings from his 

 easel were shown at the British Institution, and 

 forty-seven at the Suffolk Street exhibitions ; he 

 also contributed occasionally to other London 

 galleries. 



Though we find Hancock residing at Marl- 

 borough in 1 82 1, it was not until 1825 that he 

 turned his attention to animal subjects and sporting 



