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extraordinary what a quantity of work he sent out 

 from his easel. His brush must have been as sure 

 and rapid as it was industrious, for he was a pro- 

 lific contributor to sporting publications, and also 

 exhibited largely during the thirty-five years over 

 which his artistic career extended. 



His Royal Academy pictures were few, num- 

 bering only eleven, inclusive of the portrait of 

 which mention has been made as his first exhibit. 

 His second Academy picture was indicative of his 

 sporting tastes ; this contained portraits of Mr. W. 

 F. Stephenson's " Favourite Horses Going to 

 Covert." With the exception of the first, his 

 Royal Academy pictures exhibited between 1817 

 and 1844 were equine portraits and sporting 

 subjects. In 1836 he exhibited a portrait of 

 Master Becher on Ladybird, which was afterwards 

 engraved and reproduced in the Sporting Magazine. 



From the descriptive note accompanying the 

 plate we gather that Ladybird was a very remark- 

 able pony ; her height is not mentioned, but it is 

 stated that she was one of the fastest ponies in all 

 her paces in England. She trotted one match, for 

 ;^50, fourteen miles within the hour, carrying four- 

 teen stone ; and Captain Becher, her owner, states 

 that he often drove the pony fifty, sixty, seventy, 

 and even eighty miles a day, and never got to the 

 bottom of her. 



