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other animal painters had merely delineated the horse 

 without possessing any genuine knowledge of its- 

 anatomy ; hence the stilty and rocking-horse appear- 

 ance of these animals, which did not depict them as- 

 the works of animal painters after Stubbs' time. As- 

 I have thought perhaps it would be of interest, I 

 have brought here with me pictures of the celebrated 

 race-horses Marske, Eclipse, Shark, and Mambrino, 

 by George Stubbs, R.A., that you may the more 

 realise the character of the race-horse of a century 

 ago. 



Art, indeed, may claim to have done much for 

 the horse, and there was something, therefore, in the 

 suggestion of Earl Cathcart that : — 



" The Royal Academy might perhaps with 

 advantage devote one of its empty rooms to a 

 Winter Loan Exhibition of the portraits of famous, 

 horses by excellent artists, of which pictures, say 

 from 1700 to 1820, the country is replete. How 

 popular, how 'instructive and encouraging such an 

 exhibition, would be; and how its arrangement would 

 have delighted the late President of the Royal 

 Academy, Sir Francis Grant, who took pleasure 

 not only in the weapon of his art, but also in the 

 more exciting brush of Reynard the fox. What a 

 trotting-out there might be of clever old artists as 

 Aiken, Chalon, George Morland, Stubbs, Sartorius, 

 Ferneley, Herring, Ward, Landseer, and no doubt 

 many others who, if unrecalled by me, are yet well 

 known to fame." 



