James Pollard (British, 1792-1867)
James Pollard was the foremost of all coaching painters. He is noted for his renderings of the British mail coaches, and occasionally did paintings of racing, fishing and hunting scenes. He was a popular artist and according to N.C. Selway, author of The Golden Age of Coaching and Sport, about 343 of Pollard’s works were engraved and of these Pollard himself engraved 146.