Artist

John Frederick Herring, Sr.

Portrait of John Frederick Herring, Sr.
Portrait of John Frederick Herring, Sr.

British, 1795–1865

John Frederick Herring, Sr. was a British British Romanticism artist. 4 works are cataloged here, principally at Museum of Fine Arts Boston. John Frederick Herring, Sr. was born in London.

John Frederick Herring Sr. (12 September 1795 – 23 September 1865), also known as John Frederick Herring I, was a painter, sign maker and coachman in Victorian England. He painted the 1848 "Pharoah's Chariot Horses" (archaic spelling "Pharoah"). He amended his signature "SR" (senior) in 1836, with the growing fame of his teenage son (1 of 4) John Frederick Herring Jr.

Works by John Frederick Herring, Sr.

Collections represented

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