George Bouverie Goddard

From age ten, the drawings of this youthful genius were in great demand, even though he had received no formal artistic training, and faced much opposition in choosing art as a profession.

Then followed The Casuals in 1866, Home to Die: An Afternoon Fox with the Cotswolds in 1868, The Tournament in 1870, and Sale of New Forest Ponies at Lyndhurst in 1872.

In 1875, he exhibited a large painting, some fourteen feet in length, depicting Lord Wolverton's Bloodhounds – this was highly praised in Whyte-Melville's Riding Recollections.

Following this in 1876 was Colt-hunting in the New Forest, in 1877 The Fall of Man from Milton's Paradise Lost and in 1879 The Struggle for Existence, now in the Walker Fine Art Gallery in Liverpool.

The Fall of Man, depicting a scene from Milton's Paradise Lost, was widely praised and singled out by the Royal Academy for its portrayal of "the savagery of the brute nature ensuing upon the disobedience of Adam and Eve".