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1795 Surrey, England - 1865 Tunbridge Wells, England. Known for: Painting-coaches and racing genre.
John F. Herring was born in Surrey, England in 1795. For four years he drove the coach, "York and London Highflyer", and painting in his leisure, gained a reputation as the "coachman-painter". He... Read full biography
John F. Herring was born in Surrey, England in 1795. For four years he drove the coach, "York and London Highflyer", and painting in his leisure, gained a reputation as the "coachman-painter". He eventually devoted himself entirely to painting, receiving the only art instruction of his career from... Read full biography
John F. Herring was born in Surrey, England in 1795. For four years he drove the coach, "York and London Highflyer", and painting in his leisure, gained a reputation as the "coachman-painter". He eventually devoted himself entirely to painting, receiving the only art instruction of his career from Abraham Cooper. For thirty-three successive years he painted the winners of the races at St. Leger. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1826; at the British Institution and the Society of British... Read full biography
John F. Herring was born in Surrey, England in 1795. For four years he drove the coach, "York and London Highflyer", and painting in his leisure, gained a reputation as the "coachman-painter". He eventually devoted himself entirely to painting, receiving the only art instruction of his career from Abraham Cooper. For thirty-three successive years he painted the winners of the races at St. Leger. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1826; at the British Institution and the Society of British Artists from 1841-1852. He died in 1865 at Tunbridge Wells, England. Source: . Catalogue of New York World's Fair 1940 . Masterpieces of Art... Read full biography
John F. Herring was born in Surrey, England in 1795. For four years he drove the coach, "York and London Highflyer", and painting in his leisure, gained a reputation as the "coachman-painter". He eventually devoted himself entirely to painting, receiving the only art instruction of his career from Abraham Cooper. For thirty-three successive years he painted the winners of the races at St. Leger. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1826; at the British Institution and the Society of British Artists from 1841-1852. He died in 1865 at Tunbridge Wells, England. Source: . Catalogue of New York World's Fair 1940 . Masterpieces of Art... Read full biography
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John F. Herring was born in Surrey, England in 1795. For four years he drove the coach, "York and London Highflyer", and painting in his leisure, gained a reputation as the "coachman-painter".
He eventually devoted himself entirely to painting, receiving the only art instruction of his career from Abraham Cooper. For thirty-three successive years he painted the winners of the races at St. Leger.
He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1826; at the British Institution and the Society of British Artists from 1841-1852.
He died in 1865 at Tunbridge Wells, England.
Source:
Catalogue of New York World's Fair 1940
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John Frederick Herring was a painter, engraver and coachman in Victorian England. He is known as the painter of the "Pharaoh's Chariot Horses" of 1848. Herring, born in 1795, was the son of a London merchant of Dutch descent, who had been born abroad in America. The first eighteen years of Herring's life were spent in London, England, where his main interests were drawing and horses. In 1814, at the age of 18, he moved to Doncaster in the north of England.