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John Frederick Herring Snr was born in Blackfriars in London, spending his first eighteen years in the capital, where his greatest interests were drawing and horses. In
1814 he moved to Doncaster where he earned his living as a painter of coach insignia and inn signs. Subsequent contacts led him to become a night coach driver. Most
of his spare time was spent painting horse portraits for inn parlours and he was to become known as the ‘artist coachman’.
After staying in London for seven years, he visited Paris in 1840 - 41 at the invitation of the Duc d’Orleans, for whom he painted a number of pictures, some of which were shown in France and in England. He held the appointment of animal painter to HRH the Duchess of Kent. A commission by Queen Victoria, who was to remain a patron for the rest of his life, resulted in Herring becoming a highly successful and prolific artist, ranking with Sir Edwin Landseer as one of the most eminent animal painters of the mid - 19th century.
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