The subject of my sketch is a "bit of a sketcher himself," being the well-known artist in black-and-white whose beautiful drawings have delighted so many thousands of the readers of the Sporting and Dramatic News, the Animal World, Stock-keeper, Black and White, Fanciers' Gazette, Good Words, and many more publications, and to whom my readers and I are indebted for the typical and artistic illustrations in my little work "All about Dogs." I find he is a native of Northleigh, in Oxfordshire, and on leaving school commenced with wood engraving, which he afterwards gave up on account of the close confinement it enforced, and took up drawing as a profession, studying the human figure and portrait drawing, but for many years has devoted himself almost entirely to animal portraits, with what success is well known to most of my readers. Occasionally he paints in water-colours and oils, but his constant commissions in black-and-white have taken up most of his time, although he has done some excellent modelling in clay, and is very fond of that work.

MR. R. H. MOORE.

From photo by The Delmen Art Studios, Holloway Road, N.

THE HON. MRS. McLAREN MORRISON.

From photo by Bourne & Shepherd, India.

As is often the case with men of marked ability, he is most unassuming in his manners, but a most agreeable companion, and a staunch, reliable friend and, it is evident from his work, a keen lover of animals, as as he is particularly happy in securing the actual expressions and most salient points of his subjects.

Although I am not at all sure he ever exhibited a dog or any other animal in his life, he is such a well-known and universally esteemed visitor at most of the best shows, where he often has several "subjects" to immortalise, that I am very pleased to be able to include him amongst the Doggy People in the present work, as I feel sure anything about him will be of interest to numbers of my readers, so many of whom are indebted to him for valued souvenirs of their pets.