DEAN WOLSTENHOLME, JUNR. 253 



The younger Wolstenholme must have been a 

 man of considerable force of character. Born after 

 misfortune had overtaken his parents, he did not 

 allow the love of sport which his earnings would 

 have enabled him to indulge more fully to blind 

 him to what he considered his duty, and his younger 

 brothers owed much to the assistance he rendered 

 in giving them an education. 



His first Royal Academy picture was exhibited 

 in the year 181 8, when he was twenty years of age. 

 This work was a portrait of " Beach," a favourite 

 bull bitch bred at Abergavenny, an engraving of 

 which by H. R. Cook appeared in the Annals of 

 Sporting for November. 1828. The artist was fond 

 of the bull dog, and during his life owned many 

 good examples of the breed. The " View of the 

 Golden Lane Brewery," painted by his father, was 

 the means of suggesting to the young man that in 

 the magnificent teams of dray horses owned by 

 the great private brewing firms there was a com- 

 paratively unworked mine of art possibilities. The 

 brewers of an earlier time took great pride in 

 their horses, and if we may be guided by existing 

 pictures, some of the larger firms made a point of 

 using animals of one particular colour. The first 

 of the younger Wolstenholme's " Brewery pictures," 

 which were simply horse pictures, was Messrs. 

 Truman, Hanbury and Buxton's " Black Eagle 



