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{3) " Woodcock Shooting " : a woodland scene. In the 

 foreground are a large black-and-white retriever and four 

 spaniels, evidently portraits. A dead woodcock lies by a 

 small pool close by, and another is falling in the near middle 

 distance to the gun of a sportsman in the background. 



This picture and " Gone to Ground in the Clump 

 near Birdsall " form a pair ; " Woodcock Shooting " 

 also has been engraved. 



(4, 5, and 6) Three portraits of hunters : two browns and a 

 bay. Each of these pictures, which are well painted, measures 

 about 2 feet li inches by i foot 8 inches, oblong. 



(7) "General Bandbox," the portrait of a sturdy thorough- 

 bred, saddled and bridled ; he is held by his groom upon 

 whom a hound is fawning ; two more hounds are moving 

 away to the right. A Yorkshire landscape, Birdsall and 

 Settrington form the background, size 5 feet 6 inches by 3 

 feet II inches oblong. Signed "P. Reinagle," and dated 

 1792. 



It is fortunate that a few of Reinagle's paintings 

 should have been made accessible to those in- 

 terested in art by engravings in old magazines. 

 These truthfully display all the character and in- 

 dividuality of the works of this gifted painter. Not 

 the least charm of his sporting pictures is due to 

 the landscape setting and scenic accessories which 

 are invariably composed with true artistic feeling. 



Reinagle died at Chelsea, in 1833, at the ripe age 

 of eighty-four. His son, Richard Ramsay, born 

 1775, inherited his father's artistic talent. He 

 probably owed his second name to the fact that 

 Philip Reinagle had been a pupil of Allan Ramsay 



