Mordaunt Bisset By Samuel John Carter - A painting of a group of men riding horses

Mordaunt Fenwick-Bisset (1825-1884), Master of the Devon and Somerset Staghounds, painted by Samuel John Carter, exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in London in 1871, under the catalogue description: "A September evening, Exmoor Forest". A wild stag at bay with portraits; to be presented to the master of the Devon and Somerset Staghounds, Mordaunt Fenwick-Bisset Esq., at the beginning of his seventeenth season by upwards of 400 deer preservers and friends". The painting was presented to him at a dinner at Dunster on 14th September 1871. (Fortescue, Hon John, Record of Staghunting on Exmoor, London, 1887, p.50). He is shown on his hunter Chanticleer surrounded by his favourite hounds, with a stag at bay at Badgworthy Water, Exmoor Forest.