1 26 ANIMAL PAINTERS 



^" 1735 John Sartorius painted for the Duke of 

 Bolton a portrait of the celebrated racer Looby ; 

 the horse is represented being ridden at full gallop. 



In 1741 he painted for William Osbaldeston, 

 Esq., the portrait of a racehorse, named Old 

 Traveller, with the jockey Stephen Jefferson in 

 the saddle; and in 175S, for the Duke of 

 Kingston he did a portrait of the racehorse 

 Careless ; he also painted portraits of other horses 

 famous on the Turf in their day, some few of which 

 have been engraved. 



He contributed one picture to the gallery of the 

 Society of Artists, a body which was estab- 

 lished in 1760; to the exhibitions of the Free 

 Society of Artists, which came into being in 1761 

 and was broken up in 1783, he sent no fewer 

 than si.xty-two works. His name occurs only once 

 in the catalogues of the Royal Academy ; in the 

 e.xhibition of the year 1780 he was represented 

 by the " Portrait of a Horse." He was then living 

 in London at 108, Oxford Street ; and there he 

 probably died in 1780, having then attained to 

 about his eightieth year. 



Francis Sartorius, born in 1734, was the 



son of John, from whom he learned the art of 

 painting. His portraits of horses and pictures of 

 sporting subjects gained him great celebrity ; he 



