Self Portrait
John Frederick Herring, Sr.
(1795 - 1865)
John Frederick Herring, Sr. (1795 - 1865), also known as John Frederick Herring I, was a painter, sign maker and coachman in Victorian England.
John F. Herring, Sr. is the painter of the 1848 "Pharoah's Chariot Horses" (archaic spelling "Pharoah"). He amended his signature "SR" (senior) in 1836, with the growing fame of his teenage son (1 of 4) John Frederick Herring, Jr.
Herring, born 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, England, 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.
'Filho da Puta', the Winner of the Great St. Leger at Doncaster, 1815
The Farmyard with Horses, Ponies, Berkshire Saddle Backs, Alderney Shorthorn Cattle and Poultry
'Emilius', a bay racehorse in a paddock
A lop-eared doe rabbit with her young
Feeding Time For Farm Animals in Barn 1845
The Proud Mother Hen and Chicks 1852
'Bay Middleton' winner of the Derby in 1836
'Crucifix', Winner of the St Leger
A Clydesdale Stallion, 1820
A Horse, Pigs, Cows and Ducks
A Welsh Mountain Mare and Foal, 1854
A Doe Rabbit and her two young, 1852