John Sartorius

was an Anglo-German animal painter, the first of four generations of the celebrated Sartorius family of artists.

Sartorious was born in Nuremberg[2] in Germany, first of four generations of artists who had a considerable vogue as painters of racehorses, hunters, and other sporting subjects.

[2] The first picture of importance painted by Sartorius was for a Thomas Panton, around 1722, and represented a celebrated mare, "Molly", which had never been beaten on the turf except in the race which cost her her life.

In 1780, he exhibited a portrait of a horse at the Royal Academy; Sartorius lived in London at 108 Oxford Street.

His son, and pupil, Francis Sartorius (1734–1804) was also a notable horse painter.