Lord George Bentinck with his favourite hunter, and grooms, in a landscape with a hunt beyond

Lord William George Bentinck (1802-1848), third son of the 4th Duke of Portland was a celebrated sportsman, whose twin passions were hunting and racing. He was M.P. for King's Lynn from 1828 until his death and it was said that he 'often came to the House straight from a run, with his scarlet coat not wholly hidden by his white overcoat'.