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Sportsmen of his time ; among them, the Prince of 

 Wales, the Earl of Derby, Lord Foley, Sir Charles 

 Bunbury, the Right Hon. C. J. Fox and Mr. 

 Christopher Wilson. 



In the year 1780 he painted a pair of pictures, 

 the portraits of Two Hacks, one with the cropped 

 ears in vogue at the time. These were among 

 the collection belonging to the late Duke of 

 Hamilton, sold at Christie's in November, 1898. 



John N. Sartorius first appears as an exhibitor in 

 the year 1778, and from that time onwards till a few 

 years before his death he was constantly represented 

 in the various London galleries. To the Royal 

 Academy exhibitions he was a frequent contributor : 

 during the forty-one years, 1 781 to 182 1 inclusive, 

 only three catalogues do not contain mention of 

 works from his brush ; he exhibited at the Royal 

 Academy altogether some 74 pictures, either animal 

 portraits or sporting subjects. 



At Tendring Hall, Suffolk, the seat of Sir Joshua 

 Rowley, Bart., there is an interesting hunting piece 

 dated 1797 ; it is a portrait of Sir William Rowley, 

 Bart., on horseback, with hunt servants and two- 

 and-a-half couple of his favourite hounds. Sir 

 William was master of a pack which hunted a 

 country in Essex and Suffolk from about 1787 to 

 1797. This canvas measures 2 feet 11 inches by 2 

 feet I inch. 



