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JAMES POLLARD. 



(Born 1797.) 



JAMES POLLARD was born at Braynes Row, 

 Spa Fields, now known as Exmouth Street. 

 His father, Robert Pollard, was a Newcastle man, 

 who at the age of twenty-seven, in 1782, came 

 south to establish himself in London as an 

 engraver, and achieved a considerable reputation 

 both for his designs, some of which were of a 

 sporting character, and for his works as an engraver. 

 John Scott, the first engraver of animal and 

 sporting subjects of the time, owed his first start 

 in the metropolis to Robert Pollard, who took him 

 as a pupil. 



James Pollard's artistic talents were perhaps not 

 equal to those of many of his contemporaries, but 

 his skill in portraying sporting incidents lends his 

 works a value to which those by artists of higher 

 reputation can lay no claim. His pictures excite 

 eager competition when they come into the market 

 nowadays, and engravings therefrom are sought 

 with even greater avidity. For example, a lot 

 comprising six coloured impressions of the coaching 



