John Frederick Herring Snr Horse Oil Paintings

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" He amended his signature "SR" in 1836, with the growing fame of his teenage son John Frederick Herring, Jr.

John Frederick Herring Jnr. was born 21st June 1815, the eldest son of the painter of the same name (q.v.) and the year in which Herring Snr. embarked on his portrait of St. Leger winners. J. F. Herring Jnr., like his younger brother Charles (1828-1856) and Benjamin (1830-1871), studied under their father and in their early years worked as his assistants. John Frederick, a painter of sporting, animal, horse, hunting and farmyard subjects in both oil paintings and watercolours, was the most successful of the three brothers, exhibiting at the Royal Academy 1863-1873, at the British Institution and at the Royal Society of British Artists in Suffolk Street.

He married Kate Rolfe, the daughter of Alexander Rolfe, a landscape painter with whom his father collaborated on seven works 1857-1859, and who was herself a painter exhibiting at the Royal Academy in 1852. At this date, John Frederick Herring Snr oil painting lived in Robert Street, Hampstead Road, London, later moving to Great Wilbraham near Cambridge by c.1870.