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Grimston- Keswick) stand feeding on the other side 

 of the picture; and a black retriever "Tip" is 

 near his lordship. Many Clumber spaniels and a 

 keeper are in the wood beyond. The picture has 

 suffered much cracking from the use of asphaltum. 

 Signed, "Charles Hancock, 1833." Size, 64 inches 

 by 79 inches. 



(3) Another smaller picture, said to be the work 

 of Hancock, but without signature, is a lesser and 

 different edition of Henry sixth Lord Middleton 

 and his spaniels. The old lord (painted full figure, 

 unlike the picture at Escrick, described below), 

 sits under a tree near a stream in a wooded land- 

 scape ; a keeper comes towards him through trees 

 in the distance. A cream-coloured pony and eight 

 Clumber spaniels are in the foreground ; beside 

 Lord Middleton lie a dead woodcock, and a black 

 greyhound. 



The picture is a clever one, and is evidently 

 Hancock's work. Size 36I inches by 46I inches. 



In 1834 he painted " Lord Middleton, his 

 Spaniels and Pony," — the picture referred to in the 

 description of the work numbered (3) at Birdsall. 

 Lord Middleton and his brother-in-law. Sir Francis 

 Lawley, are seated on the spectator's right ; on the 

 left stands a pony, and a small pack of spaniels 

 occupy the centre of the canvas, which measures 

 2 ft. lO^- inches by i ft. 10 inches. This picture 



