PHILIP REINAGLE, R.A, III 



Studio he was engaged for some years in painting 

 portraits exclusively. When about thirty-four years 

 of age, however, an innate love of sport and nature 

 tempted his brush in a new direction, and from that 

 time forward, though he continued to paint portraits, 

 he devoted far more of his time to general sporting 

 subjects, pictures of animals and birds and to 

 landscape painting, in all of which he attained to a 

 high degree of excellence. 



Accuracy of drawing is a very prominent feature 

 of his animal pictures and one which betrays close 

 and sympathetic study. The expression in the eye, 

 the life-like attitude, anatomical truth of form, and 

 nice attention to minute detail give his work a stamp 

 of their own. Nowhere are these cardinal merits 

 more apparent than in his pictures of dogs ; 

 admirable examples appear in the twenty-four plates 

 engraved by John Scott for The Spoi'tman s 

 Repository, published in 1820, by Sherwood, Neely 

 and Jones ; but good as these are, the twenty-four 

 plates which adorned The Sportsman s Cabinet, pub- 

 lished in 1803, by J. Cunder, are probably those which 

 show Reinagle at his best. The minutely descrip- 

 tive title-page so much in vogue at the time shows 

 the scope of this work : " The Sportsman's Cabinet ; 

 or Correct Delineations of the Various Dogs Used 

 in the Sports of the Field, including the Canine 

 Race in general ; consisting of a Series of rich and 



