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STAG-HUNTING RECOLLECTIONS 



to it from Lord Waveney. It is a curious thing how few 

 people Sir Joshua -Reynolds painted in hunting or even in 

 riding dress. I only remember one lady, a most distinguished 

 and admirable picture of Lady Charles Spencer, in a scarlet 

 habit, deerskin riding-gloves, with— it must be admitted— 



New Tekrous were added by the Highwaymen 



a shocking grey horse. This picture is now at Ferrieres. Of 

 course there must be several others, at all events of men. At 

 the same time Sir J. Keynolds did not look to dress for the 

 breath of life as much as Velasquez and Gainsborough did. 

 He is rather too prone to robe, or rather garb his women, 

 and to pose them as saints or nymphs.' 



But to get back to hunting : in 1735 the great crowds 

 which came out with the king's hounds led to arrangements 

 by which people could only hunt by ticket, which had to be 



' Dr. Johnson criticises this : ' I should grieve to see Keynolds transfer to 

 heroes and to goddesses . . . that art which is now employed in diffusing 

 friendship, in renewing tenderness, in quickening the affections of the absent, 

 and continuing the presence of the dead.' 



