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game-keeper, in the service of the late Lord Kintore, and his grey 

 pony, with the panniers, which struck me as being the best representation 

 of real life that I had ever before seen on canvas. It is from the pencil 

 of a celebrated artist whose name I cannot recollect, and he had a fine 

 subject for it in this athletic German. Over the fire-place is the meeting- 

 of Lord Kintore 's fox-hounds, by Ferneley, of Melton Mowbray, a 

 picture of great dimensions, in which the likeness of his lordship and 

 his friends is admirably preserved throughout. Over the side-board are 

 two pictures of equally large dimensions, representing the meetings of 

 the Duke of Buccleuch and the Fife fox-hounds, in each of which the 

 leading characters of the respective hunts are painted to the very life, 

 especially Mr. Campbell, of Saddel, Sir David Baird, and Williamson, 

 the huntsman, in the former. They are from the pencil of Mr. Francis 

 Grant, and not merely do they reflect the highest credit upon him as 

 an artist, but show, as indeed that of Mr. Ferneley shows, how necessary 

 it is that a painter should be intimately acquainted with the distinguishing 

 features of the subjects on which he exercises his art. Everything in 

 these pictures is in proper keeping ; and how could it be otherwise 1 

 Mr. Ferneley lives in the metropolis of fox-hunting, and Mr. Grant has 

 hunted with most of the best packs in Great Britain. The picture he 

 has lately painted for Lord Chesterfield, of the meeting of the King's 

 stag-hounds, must be considered the chef (Toeuvre of modern days in that 

 line. The fig-ures are most admirably grouped, and include about a 

 dozen of the principal noblemen and gentlemen who attend his Majesty's 

 hunt, with Davies, the huntsman, in the midst of them, absolutely start- 

 ing from the canvass. 



Knowing that Lord Brougham had been visiting at Keith-hall in the 

 autumn, I had the curiosity to ask Lord Kintore, whether his lordship had 



