Sarah Smith Herford or Mrs. John Herford (1818-c. 1870) was a British landscape painter and educator. Mrs

Sarah was the daughter of Edward Smith of Birmingham and married John Herford. and founded the Unitarian Boarding School for Girls in

Altrincham Altrincham ( , locally ) is a market town in Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, south of the River Mersey. It is southwest of Manchester city centre, southwest of Sale and east of Warrington. At the 2011 Census, it had a population ...

, Cheshire. Among her children were sons Brooke, Edward, and

William Henry Herford William Henry Herford (1820–1908) was an English Unitarian minister, writer and educator. He was interested in education and married a school head mistress, Louisa Carbutt. Early life Born at Coventry, 20 October 1820, he was fourth son in a f ...

, and daughters Mary Chance and

Laura Herford Anne Laura Herford (1831–1870) was a British artist in the early 19th century, and in 1860, was the first woman to be admitted to the Royal Academy schools. Her career was relatively short, but during that time she exhibited at the Royal Academ ...

. Mary Chance became the mother of the painter

Helen Allingham Helen Allingham (née Paterson; 26 September 1848 – 28 September 1926) was a British watercolourist and illustrator of the Victorian era. Biography Helen Mary Elizabeth Paterson was born on 26 September 1848, at Swadlincote in Derbyshire, ...

who Sarah Herford was said to have inspired. Sarah Herford's work ''Landscape at

Kenilworth Kenilworth ( ) is a market town and civil parish in the Warwick District in Warwickshire, England, south-west of Coventry, north of Warwick and north-west of London. It lies on Finham Brook, a tributary of the River Sowe, which joins the ...

'' was included in the book ''

Women Painters of the World ''Women Painters of the World, from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413–1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the present day'', assembled and edited by Walter Shaw Sparrow, lists an overview of prominent women painters up to 1905, the year of publication. Th ...

''.Women Painters of the World
on Project Gutenberg

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1818 births Founders of English schools and colleges Year of death missing 19th-century British women artists {{UK-painter-19thC-stub