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John Frederick Herring Snr oil painting artist

Biography of John Frederick Herring Snr

English Academic Classical artist
born 1795 - died 1865

The well-known English animal painter John Frederick Herring Snr, was born in Surrey in 1795. Herring began life as a coachman and later received instruction in Antique painting from Abraham Cooper and Sawrey Gilpin. Many of Herring paintings are well known through engravings and his lithographic prints of coaching and racing paintings are classics of their kind.

Herring first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1826 and John Frederick Herring Snr received commissions from George IV and Queen Victoria. Herring was a member of the Society of British Artists and a regular exhibitor at the British institution.
Examples of Herring paintings are in the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Tate gallery, Glasgow Art Gallery, Wolverhampton and Leeds.

John Frederick Herring was the son of a London merchant of Dutch parentage, who had been born in America. The first eighteen years of his life were spent in London, where his greatest interests were drawing and horses. In 1814 Herring moved to Doncaster, arriving just in time to see the Duke of Hamilton's William win the St. Leger. By 1815 John Frederick Herring Snr had married Ann Harris; his sons John Frederick Herring Junior, Charles and Benjamin were all to become artists, while his daughters Ann and Emma both married painters.

In Doncaster, Herring earned his living as a painter of coach insignia and inn signs and his contact with a firm owned by a Mr Wood led to his subsequent employment as a night coach driver. Herring’s spare time was spent Antique painting portraits of horses for inn parlours and John Frederick Herring Snr became known as the `artist coachman'. Herring's talent was quickly recognised and John Frederick Herring Snr soon found himself painting hunters and racehorses for the gentry.

In 1830, Herring left Doncaster for Newmarket, where John Frederick Herring Snr spent three years before moving to London. During this time, John Frederick Herring Snr may have received tuition from Abraham Cooper. In London, Herring got into financial difficulties and was rescued by W T Copeland, who commissioned many antique paintings including designs used for Copeland Spode bone china. In 1840-41, Herring visited Paris by invitation of the Duc d'Orléans, for whom John Frederick Herring Snr painted several pictures.

In 1845, Herring was appointed Animal Painter to HRH the Duchess of Kent, followed by a commission from Queen Victoria, who was to remain a patron for the rest of his life.

Herring spent the last twelve years of his life at Meopham Park near Tonbridge, where John Frederick Herring Snr lived as a country squire. John Frederick Herring Snr now broadened his subject matter and painted agricultural scenes and narrative pictures, as well as his better known paintings of hunting, racing and shooting.

A highly successful and prolific artist, Herring ranks with Sir Edwin Landseer as one of the most eminent animal artists of the mid nineteenth century. His antique paintings were very popular and many were engraved, including his thirty-three winners of the St Leger and his twenty-one winners of the Derby. Herring exhibited at the Royal Academy 1818-65, the British Institution 1830-65 and the Society of British Artists (whose Vice-President John Frederick Herring Snr became in 1842), 1836-52.