lO ANIMAL PAINTERS 



The expression " very rising artist " was never 

 more happily used, as that year saw the beginning 

 of Hancock's vogue as a painter of the best race- 

 horses of the time. 



In 1835 the artist painted "Tally-ho!" the 

 picture of a fox breaking covert. This was 

 engraved by Beckwith and Duncan, the plate 

 measuring io| inches by 5 J inches, and was pub- 

 lished by Rudolph Ackermann. 



In 1836 he painted a portrait of "George Baker, 

 Esq., on his Favourite old Mare." This was 

 engraved by W. Giller, size of plate 2 1 inches by 

 18^ inches. It was published by Ackermann. 

 " Mr. Baker, of Elenore Hall, in the County of 

 Durham " — vide the New Sporting Magazine — " has 

 been a gentleman jockey, an owner of racehorses, 

 a master of foxhounds, a member of Parliament, an 

 amateur in the fine arts — in short, he is a thorough- 

 bred British sportsman." 



Hancock's services were also in request as an 

 illustrator of books. The Sportsmans Annual 

 (royal folio), published in 1836 by A. H. Baily and 

 Co., of Cornhill, and R. B. King, of Monument 

 Yard, London, contains plates from pictures by Sir 

 Edwin Landseer, Abraham Cooper, R.A., and 

 Charles Hancock. If a man's work may be known, 

 as we are told the man himself may be known, " by 

 the company he keeps," nothing is wanting to prove 



