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jockeys, attendants, and others, is, of course, faith- 

 fully reproduced. 



There are in this collection two portraits of the 

 famous Flying Childers which were painted for 

 Sir William Jolliffe, each measuring about 4 feet 

 by 3 feet. One shows the horse on Newmarket 

 Heath ridden by a groom in yellow coat with blue 

 cuffs, and wearing blue stockings and a black cap ; 

 many horses at exercise in the background. The 

 second shows Flying Childers stripped and held 

 by a boy ; near on a crop-eared white horse is a 

 man holding a racing saddle across his mount's 

 withers. Seymour painted in 1739 a third portrait 

 of Flying Childers for his owner the Duke of 

 Devonshire. This picture was subsequently en- 

 graved by John Scott for the Sporting Magazine 

 of 1813. 



Among other pictures in the Ammerdown col- 

 lection we may note the portrait of the Bloody- 

 shouldered Arabian ; a portrait of a Chestnut 

 Barb Stallion, held by an attendant in a flowing 

 pink robe and white turban, and a portrait of 

 Sterlin, a plater. Two hunting pieces must also 

 be mentioned ; one, over 5 feet in length, is a 

 portrait of Sir William Jolliffe standing beside a 

 favourite dun hunter, which is held by a groom ; 

 to the rear a countryman holds the groom's horse, 

 a chestnut, in the shade of some trees ; the back- 



