"Young Blood"
10x8 Oil on Panel
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     This study is inspired by Hugh Cholmondeley, the third Baron Delamere. This diminutive hot-tempered Eton drop out was one of many young bloods who came to hunt in British East Africa during Queen Victoria’s reign. Later many came back between 1900 and 1914 as settlers.
     Lord Delamere, like so many of his cohorts, got a bad reputation as a heavy drinking carouser, but he also gained much respect and admiration from the early colonists as a brave lion hunter. He would return time and time again to hunt big game before he found his "Elderado" in the highlands of what is now central Kenya. Here he eventually made his life. Credited by many with coining the name "White Hunter" when he first employed Alan Black, his reputation remains in high regard as does his estate today.