Fox on the run

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Full Cry

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Cotherstone A Racehorse 1843

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Greyhound

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A racehorse in a stable with a groom

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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.

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