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appears to have been the fashionable horse-painter 

 of his day, for it is recorded that he produced 

 more portraits of winners on the Turf during the 

 latter half of the eighteenth century than any artist 

 of the time. It is stated that he painted more 

 pictures of Eclipse during the zenith of that great 

 horse's fame than did all his contemporaries put 

 together. Eclipse was foaled 1764 and died 1789. 



For the Duke of Grafton he painted the por- 

 trait of Antinous, foaled in 1758; also that 

 of Herod, bred in the same year by the Duke 

 of Cumberland. For Mr. Latham he painted the 

 portrait of the famous mare Snap, foaled in 1759; 

 for Mr. Shafto that of Cardinal Ruff, foaled 

 in 1760, and afterwards the property of Lord 

 Grosvenor ; and for the Marquis of Rockingham 

 the portrait of Bay Malton, foaled in 1768. 

 Some of these pictures of race horses were after- 

 wards engraved by John June and published 

 between the years 1760 and 1770. Other works 

 of his were also engraved or mezzo-tinted. 



At Aynhoe Park, Banbury, the residence of 

 Mr. W. C. Cartwright, late M.P. for Oxfordshire, 

 Banbury Division, there is a hunting group painted 

 in 1764. This work, which was formerly in Jus- 

 more House, Oxfordshire, represents W. and H. 

 Fermore, with a friend, hunting in Aynhoe Park. 

 The three gentlemen wear black coats and are 



