John Frederick Herring, Jr.

John Frederick Herring Jr. ( * 1820 in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, † 1907) was an English painter who is known for his horses and landscape painting. Publications lately suggest that Herring Jr. bore the same name as a born and shortly thereafter departed in 1815 brother. He was one of four sons of the famous painter John Frederick Herring Sr. ( 1795-1865 ).

Life and work

The father, John F. Herring Sr., was in his time one of the most famous artists of the themes of the horse painting and horse racing devoted himself and was very popular with the English aristocracy. John Frederick Jr. was trained in painting from his father, whose popularity relieved him of his career.

John Herring Jr. shared the love of painting with his younger brothers Charles and Benjamin, while the sisters, Ann and Emma, both married painters. These three by four brothers painted in a similar style as her father and often worked together on the same image.

Early in his career, he signed his work with J. Fred J. F. Herring or Herring Junr, but when he painted alone, he moved to J. F. Herring. In the years after 1836 Herring Sr. felt restricted by the growing popularity of his son of the same name, and began to identify the picture with " SENR " at the end of the signature.

John Herring Jr. drove in the tradition of his father, to paint horses and equestrian images, but extended his subjects as his artistic skills were perfected: Animals on the banks of a river or scenes on a farm were characteristic of his work.