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as drawing-master in Dr. Goodenough's Academy 

 at Ealing. 



We have no means of ascertaining how long he 

 continued to hold this position. The next discover- 

 able point in his career is the exhibition of three 

 coloured drawings entitled " Hunting Subjects," at 

 the gallery of the Society of British Artists in the 

 year 1783, when he was thirty -three years of age. 

 The Royal Academy catalogue of the following 

 year, when he sent his first picture — a " Hunting 

 Piece" — to that exhibition, gives his address there 

 as 8, Coventry Street, Haymarket. We may fairly 

 conclude, therefore, that in 1784, if not in the pre- 

 vious year, Howitt had "found his feet" as an 

 artist, and had severed his connection with the 

 school at Ealing. 



In 1785, Howitt, then resident at Richmond in 

 Yorkshire, sent two landscape pictures to the Royal 

 Academy Exhibition, and eight years later, in 1793, 

 we find him again in London at 4, Old Compton 

 Street, Soho, and once more an exhibitor. His 

 pictures in that year's exhibition were " Jacques and 

 the Deer," and "A Fox Hunt." From the Old 

 Compton Street address, in 1794, he sent in his 

 picture of " Smugglers Alarmed." 



Howitt painted much in water colour, and some 

 of his best work was done in this medium. Four 

 water-colour drawings of " Fox Hunting," dated 



