Harnessed plough-horses and ducks in a barn

Details

John Frederick Herring, Sen. (1795-1865)
Harnessed plough-horses and ducks in a barn
signed and dated 'J.F. Herring 1848' (lower left)
oil on canvas, painted circular
32 x 32 in. (81.3 x 81.3 cm.)

Provenance

Captain A.M. Wakefield-Saunders of 2 Hyde Park Gardens, London; Christie's, London, 12 March 1926, lot 80 (70 gns. to Mitchell).

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Lot Essay

In 1848 Herring had declared that he would not paint another racing winner unless he could 'make a subject of it', and he became more keen on broadening his subject matter to include rural genre scenes. This new interest would be furthered by his move to Meopham Park in Kent in 1853, whereupon his meticulously detailed farmyard scenes became a major focus of his work.

In a letter of 1848 to his old patron Charles Spencer Stanhope, Herring remarked on the popularity of his work, at a time when 'his pictures were no sooner seen than purchased' (O. Beckett, J.F. Herring & Sons, New York and London, 1981, p.57).

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