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was brought back to England and purchased by 

 George Ward, the artist's son, who exhibited it at 

 Smithfield Cattle Show. The picture created a 

 sensation, and was criticised at length in all the 

 papers, much to the interest of the artist. Thus he 

 writes to his son on December 22, 1848 : — 



I have anxiously expected to hear how the exhibition 

 goes on, or if any more papers. I trust you carefully keep 

 all the criticisms. So many on one work is a curiosity, and 

 tends to prove how impossible it is for a painter to attempt 

 to suit the critics, as you will find that those I have seen 

 directly oppose each other as to the faults and beauties. I 

 could give a reply to each and a reason for everything I have 

 introduced, but then I must be writer as well as painter. 



In 1862, it was purchased for ^1,500 by the 

 Trustees of the National Gallery from Mr. G. R. 

 Ward. 



In 1825, Ward exhibited the portrait of 

 Monitor, a very fast hackney belonging to King 

 George IV., an engraving from which is reproduced 

 as an example of his work ; and in the following 

 year was shown his picture of the Norfolk 

 Phenomenon, the great hackney sire whose impor- 

 tation into Yorkshire by Mr. Robert Ramsdale did 

 so much to improve the breed of roadsters in that 

 county and in the North. Another picture, stated 

 in an article in the English Ilhtstrated Magazine 

 for August, 1884, by Mr. F. T. Piggott, to be even 

 a finer piece of work than the " Bull, Cow and 



