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[[underline]]JOHN FREDERICK HERRING[[/underline]]

HERRING, John Frederick, an animal painter, was born in Surrey in 1795. Until the age of eighteen, his life was passed in London, and he then found employment in coach-painting at Doncaster. He next worked as a stage-coachman, and for four years drove the ' York and London Highflyer'; but he devoted all his leisure time to painting, becoming known as the 'artist-coachman'. By the assistance of friends, he at length gave up the reins, and obtained some instruction from Abraham Cooper, the only art eduction he ever received. His earlier works were confined to race-horses, and for thirty-three successive years he painted the winners of the St. Leger. He left Doncaster in 1839, and, after a stay of about three years at Newmarket, settled in London. From this period the scope of his art widened, and he produced the works on which his reputation rests, exhibiting at the Royal Academy from 1826, at the British Institution, and also at the Society of British Artists, of which he was a member from 1841 to 1852. [[underline]]His art was very popular[[/underline]], and he received commissions from George IV., Queen Victoria, and the Duke of Orleans. He died in 1865 at Tunbridge Wells, where he had spent his latter years. Amongst his chief works are:

The Farmer's Daughter
The Ferry
Returning from Epsom
The Derby Day
Mazeppa
Peveril of the Peak
Going to the Fair
The Society of Friends
Members of the Temperance Society
The Frugal Meal (National Gallery, London)
Waiting for Master
The Baron's Charger
The Horse Fair
The Market Day
A Group of Ducks (Glasgow Gallery)
The Deer-stalker (the same)
The Black Horse drinking from a Trough (National Gallery, Dublin)

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