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matters pertaining to the hunting field ; and his 

 pictures lose nothing of their interest to sportsmen 

 from the fact that the artist was a straisfht man 

 to hounds. The Old Berkeley was the pack with 

 which he most frequently hunted, and F. C. Turner 

 on a celebrated horse named Tommy was a figure 

 well known to the members of that hunt. As 

 will be seen from the titles of the pictures given 

 hereafter, his sporting interests were by no means 

 restricted to horse and hound ; on the contrary, 

 he was an all-round sportsman, equally fond of 

 racing, shooting, and coursing, and equally conver- 

 sant with each. 



" Throwing the Lasso " was painted to comme- 

 morate the take of a deer which had soiled in a 

 pond in Durham Marshes after giving the Royal 

 Buckhounds a run of 35 minutes. " Our artist," 

 says the Sporting Magazine, in a note descriptive 

 of an engraving which T. H. Engleheart made 

 from the picture, "having been mounted by a 

 friend was present at the capture ; and Lord 

 Frederick Fitzclarence and the select few up having 

 expressed a desire to see a sketch, it was accord- 

 ingly made on the spot." It represents the hunts- 

 man on the bank throwing a noose neatly over the 

 head of the quarry as it plunges in the water. 



The possessor of sporting tastes which claimed 

 gratification in winter and summer alike, it is 



