246 ANIMAL PAINTERS 



of life. His pictures naturally reflected the tastes 

 he could no longer indulge, and his first contribu- 

 tion to the Royal Academy, exhibited in 1803, 

 when he was forty-six years of age, is entitled 

 " Coursing." The large majority of the pictures he 

 sent to the Royal Academy were sporting scenes or 

 animal portraits, but his publicly exhibited works 

 represent only an insignificant proportion of the 

 pictures he painted during the quarter of a century 

 which constituted his working life as a professional 

 artist. 



In the interesting series of interleaved catalogues 

 of the Academy exhibitions which Mr. Anderden 

 bequeathed to the British Museum we find notes 

 bearing on Wolstenholme's pictures. Of the " Por- 

 trait of Mr. J. Goldham," shown in 1806, Mr. 

 Anderden writes : " I have seen this man cutting 

 away right and left, his horse at full gallop all the 

 time. He was a trooper in the London Volunteer 

 Yeomanry, of which my father was Colonel Com- 

 mandant." The artist has portrayed this accom- 

 plished swordsman "performing the Austrian broad- 

 sword exercise with two swords at speed." John 

 Goldham was Field Adjutant of the corps men- 

 tioned, and the picture commemorates his success 

 in winning a bet of 200 gs., that he would go 

 through the exercise while riding at the rate of 

 thirty miles an hour. Having won the wager he 



