306 A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH TURF. 



by the same artist. The sketch from it which was painted evidently established itself 

 as a type of what the rendering of Eclipse should be by any artist, for in the beautifully- 

 coloured painting by J. N. Sartorius, at the Durdans, in which the horse is repre- 

 sented with Oakley (in red with a black cap) in the saddle, the attitude of the head 

 and the position of the legs are identically similar, as may be observed in the 

 reproduction which Lord Rosebery has courteously allowed me to make for this 

 volume. For many reasons, therefore, we may take it that these two pictures give 

 us the nearest representation now possible of Eclipse as he really was, and this con- 



" Eclipse," ridden by T. OaUey 

 (in red with black cap). 



elusion will only be strengthened by anyone who examines them more closely by the 

 aid of the diagrams and measurements made by Saint Bel. I cannot complete this 

 portion of my subject without adding that the wonderful collection at the Durdans 

 also contains the following paintings of Eclipse : (i) by F. Sartorius in 1770, a picture 

 very like the well-known Stubbs' (Vol. I., p. 151), but without the jockey and with 

 a different background; (2) by Stubbs, showing the horse cantering at exercise in 

 his clothing, not a very successful work ; (3) the original of the well-known engraving 

 by Stubbs ; (4) a sketch for this original, showing only one jockey ; (5) a somewhat 

 impossible Sartorius, depicting the animal " at full stretch," with his jockey riding 



