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FOX-HUNTING RECOLLECTIONS 159 



It was during this Mastership of the Quorn 

 Hunt that Ferneley, the well-known artist, painted 

 at Melton Mowbray, in 1822, the celebrated 

 Quorn picture which included the following 

 portraits : 



Hon. Captain Berkeley, R.N., Hon. George 

 Anson, Val Maher, Sir Bellingham Graham (on 

 The Baron), Lord Brudenell, Lord Rancliffe, 

 Mr. \\Tiyte - Melville, Mr. Greene of Rolleston, 

 Lord Elcho, Mr. Maxse (on Cognac), Mr. George 

 Womb well. Marquis of Graham, John Moore, 

 Colonel Coke (on Advance), Sir James Mus- 

 grave. Lord Molyneux, Lord Darlington, John 

 Bushe, Jack White, Ferneley (the artist). 



This picture still hangs in the hall at Norton 

 Conyers, and is said to have cost £2000, a price 

 which alarmed the Meltonians of those days, 

 with the result that it was eventually raffled for 

 at £100 a-piece. It had been arranged that the 

 winner should be declared by throwing dice, 

 and most of the competitors w^ere present. Sir 

 BeUingham was not there, but was represented 

 by Mr. Maxse, who, after throwing six and five 

 for himself, had one more throw for his absent 

 friend, which turned out to be double sixes, and 

 this won the prize, appropriately enough, for the 

 Master of the Quorn. 



In 1823, Osbaldeston returned to the Quorn, 



