John Frederick Herring Jr. (1820–1907)
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"John Frederick Herring Jr. (1820-1907)" (overview),
Rehs Galleries, 2007, webpage:
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"Works by John F. Herring Jr., top $80,000 at Little sale"
(news), ClickPress, July 2007, webpage:
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auction - works by "John F. Herring Jr. (1820-1907) sold for
more than $80,000" at Hillsborough, NC
The town of Hillsborough is the county seat of Orange County, North Carolina, United States and is located along the Eno River. The population was 6,087 in 2010, but it grew rapidly to 9,660 by 2020.
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June 9, 2007.
was an English
painter
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who is best known for his
equine art.
Life and work
John F. Herring Jr. was born in
Doncaster, then in the
West Riding of Yorkshire c.1820, to the well-known 19th-century artist
John Frederick Herring Sr. (1795–1865), who at the time, was considered one of England's great Sporting and
Equestrian artists, patronized by the English aristocracy.
[ The father's mastery of the brush, and popularity with the nobility, served his son, Herring Jr., well. Early on, Herring Jr. was exposed to fine painting and wealthy patrons.][
Recent reference books][ state that Herring Sr.'s first child was named "John Frederick Herring Jr." and was born on 21 June 1815, later baptized on 22 October 1815.][ However, another child was born in 1820 and also named "John Frederick Herring Jr." (baptized in 1821). The assumption is that the first Herring child died and the second, born in 1820, is the artist we know of today.][
Herring developed a love for painting, a passion his brothers Charles and Benjamin shared. Three of the four brothers became artists, painting in the same style as their father, often collaborating on a single painting.][
In the years after 1836, Herring Sr., feeling threatened by the teenage Herring's ability and growing popularity, began incorporating the tag "SR" at the end of his signature.][
Herring continued painting, in the tradition of his father, the sporting and animal pictures; however, as his artistic prowess improved, his style changed: he loosened his brushwork and widened his landscape views.][ The placement of farm animals along the banks of a ]stream
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or within a farmyard
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were characteristic of Herring's work.[
Both John Herring Snr and John Herring Jnr were the subject of an episode of Minder when Arthur Daley attempts to sell a counterfeit painting to an art dealer.
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See also
* George Stubbs, horse painter.
Notes
References
Profile and art pictorial of John Frederick Herring Jr. at Rehs Galleries, Inc.
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19th-century English painters
English male painters
20th-century English painters
Equine artists
19th-century births
1907 deaths
20th-century English male artists
19th-century English male artists