COL. ANSTRUTHER THOMSON 5 



number of pheasants were sent by General Bouverie 

 for the dinner, as a compliment to the occasion. 



" The testimonial consisted of a portrait of Captain 

 Thomson, by Sir Francis Grant, President of the 

 Royal Academy. The likeness is a very striking 

 one. Captain Thomson is represented on his 

 favourite hunter ' Iris,' and is surrounded by six or 

 seven of his favourite hounds, one of them being the 

 well-known k Governess '. The horse and hounds 

 are as good likenesses as the portrait, and the 

 minutest details are carried out with wonderful fidelity 

 and exactness. In the background is an old tree, 

 with the branches bare of leaves in the winter season, 

 the locality being well-known to the members of the 

 hunt. The picture is said to be Sir Francis Grant's 

 best work of the kind, and by those who have seen 

 it this will readily be believed, as it seems to be 

 almost faultless as a work of art. It is a rare thing 

 to find an artist who excels both in portrait painting 

 and in animal painting, but in this picture both are 

 so good it is difficult to say in which department the 

 artist has been most successful. 



" The chair was occupied by Colonel Loyd- 

 Linclsay, the vice-chair being filled by Matthew 

 Oldacre, Esq. Amongst those present were : The 

 Earl of Rosslyn, the Right Hon. H. G. Liddell, 

 M.P., the Hon. Fitzpatrick Vernon, Sir Charles 

 I sham, Bart., Sir Algernon Peyton, Bart., General 

 Sir Frederick Horn, Bart, the Right Hon. George 

 Ward Hunt, M.P., Sackville George Stopford, Esq., 

 M.P., Major Fairfax Cartwright, M.P., Albert Pell, 



