John Frederick Herring. John Frederick Herring Sr., also known as John Frederick Herring I, was a painter, sign maker and coachman in Victorian England.
He painted the 1848 Pharoah's Chariot Horses. He amended his signature SR in 1836, with the growing fame of his teenage son John Frederick Herring Jr. Herring, born in London in 1795, was the son of a London merchant of Dutch parentage, who had been born overseas in America.
The first eighteen years of Herring's life were spent in London, where his greatest interests were drawing and horses. In the year 1814, at the age of 18, he moved to Doncaster in the north of England, arriving in time to witness the Duke of Hamilton's William win the St. Leger Stakes horserace.
By 1815, Herring had married Ann Harris; his sons John Frederick Herring Jr., Charles Herring, and Benjamin Herring were all to become artists, while his two daughters, Ann and Emma, both married painters. When she was barely of age in 1845 Ann married Harrison Weir.
In Doncaster, England, Herring was employed as a painter of inn signs and coach insignia on the sides of coaches, and his later contact with a firm owned by a Mr. Wood led to Herring's subsequent employment as a night coach driver. Herring spent his spare time painting portraits of horses for inn parlors, and he became known as the artist coachman. Herring's talent was recognized by wealthy customers, and he began painting hun
He painted the 1848 Pharoah's Chariot Horses. He amended his signature SR in 1836, with the growing fame of his teenage son John Frederick Herring Jr. Herring, born in London in 1795, was the son of a London merchant of Dutch parentage, who had been born overseas in America.
The first eighteen years of Herring's life were spent in London, where his greatest interests were drawing and horses. In the year 1814, at the age of 18, he moved to Doncaster in the north of England, arriving in time to witness the Duke of Hamilton's William win the St. Leger Stakes horserace.
By 1815, Herring had married Ann Harris; his sons John Frederick Herring Jr., Charles Herring, and Benjamin Herring were all to become artists, while his two daughters, Ann and Emma, both married painters. When she was barely of age in 1845 Ann married Harrison Weir.
In Doncaster, England, Herring was employed as a painter of inn signs and coach insignia on the sides of coaches, and his later contact with a firm owned by a Mr. Wood led to Herring's subsequent employment as a night coach driver. Herring spent his spare time painting portraits of horses for inn parlors, and he became known as the artist coachman. Herring's talent was recognized by wealthy customers, and he began painting hun
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