30 Sir William Russell Flint RA - Burlington Paintings

12 John Frederick Herring Jr
1815 - 1907
Good Companions
Signed
Oil on Canvas
30 x 50 ins / 76.2 x 127 cms
John Frederick Herring, Jr. came from a family of sporting and animal artists, which included
his father, who was a very famous painter of sporting and animal subjects, his two brothers,
Benjamin and Charles, and his uncle, Benjamin, Sr. His mother (a member of the Society of
Lady Artists) was also a competent painter and exhibited genre scenes at the Royal Academy
from 1852 to 1866.
John was the first of three sons to help his successful father. He worked in both oil and
watercolour, but his oils are of greater interest and they have in the past often been confused
with those of his father. He exhibited extensively at the Royal Academy between 1863 and
1873 and also showed at the British Institute and the Suffolk Street Galleries. Herring married
the artist Kate Rolfe and spent the latter part of his life at Fulbourn near Cambridge