John Frederick Herring Sr - Artist Info

About John Frederick Herring Sr

Name variants

John Frederick Senior Herring, John Frederick Herring Senior
  • 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
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