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Charles Newman, painted for presentation to that 

 gentleman when he resigned the mastership in 

 1842. The picture included portraits of several 

 East Essex sportsmen, Messrs. Caswell Newman 

 and Thomas White, " Parson Cox," and Meshech 

 Cornell, whipper-in. Mr. Charles Newman is 

 riding a white horse, and the hounds are repre- 

 sented breaking covert. This work was engraved 

 by Barraud. 



F. C. Turner's first picture in the Royal Academy 

 — "The Portrait of a Lady" — exhibited in 1817, 

 was painted in London, the artist's address being 

 given as 17, Park Street, Upper Baker Street; 

 and nearly twenty years later he sent a picture to 

 the Royal Academy from 66, Great Queen Street, 

 Lincoln's Inn Fields. He could not have passed 

 any considerable portion of his time in the metro- 

 polis, during the hunting season at all events, for 

 it is said of him — and the bare statement is the 

 only scrap of biographical detail to be found — that 

 he rode more often to hounds and had been in at 

 the death of more foxes than any artist in exist- 

 ence. A note in the Sporting Magazine, descrip- 

 tive of one of his hunting scenes, remarks, " We 

 know he can both wield and follovo ' the brush ' 

 with equal credit." The minute accuracy of tech- 

 nical detail which distinguishes his work sufficiently 

 proves the intimacy of his acquaintance with all 



