176 ANIMAL PAINTERS 



horse pictures were engraved by Thomas Burford 

 and other engravers. "Wood-cock Shooting " and 

 " Trailing for a Hare " were engraved as companion 

 plates, 13! inches by g} inches, and published 

 by Carington Bowie on ist May, 1786. 



Seymour was a man of independent spirit, as we 

 gather from the story told of his intercourse with the 

 Duke of Somerset, a man of overweening pride. 

 The artist, while on a visit to the Duke in Sussex 

 for the purpose of painting portraits of his stud, 

 dined with his host, who drank to him as " Cousin 

 Seymour." The artist, a gentleman by birth and 

 education, ventured the remark that he believed 

 himself to be distantly related to the ducal family, 

 a suggestion which gave such deep offence that 

 the Duke left the table, and directed his steward 

 to pay and dismiss his " quondam cousin " then 

 and there. Seymour took his departure forthwith, 

 leaving the work he had been engaged to do 

 unfinished. The Duke, finding it impossible to 

 discover anyone capable ot completing the task, 

 sent again for Seymour, who promptly returned the 

 reply : " My lord, I will now prove that I am of 

 your Grace's family, for I won't come." Anthony 

 Pasquin (John Williams) gives a somewhat different 

 account of the circumstances under which Seymour 

 offended the Duke and refused his advances, but 

 shows both peer and painter in the same light. 



