[ 1 Of A Pair Offered Separately ] Exquisite 19th original oil on canvas in the style of Stubbs and John Herring Sr. depicting an interior stable scene. ABOUT John Frederick Herring Snr. was a member of an artistic family who specialized in sporting and animal subject matter. He preferred to paint racehorses and typically painted the likeness of the Derby and St. Leger winners. His works were highly reproduced in engravings. Herring had three artist sons and a brother and it can be difficult to distinguish between the works of the various family members. Life and work: Herring, born in 1795, was the son of a London merchant of Dutch parentage, who had been born overseas in America. The first eighteen years of Herring''''s life were spent in London, England, where his greatest interests were drawing and horses. In the year 1814, at the age of 18, he moved to Doncaster in the north of England, arriving in time to witness the Duke of Hamilton''''s ''''William'''' win the St. Leger Stakes horserace. By 1815, Herring had married Ann Harris his sons John Frederick Herring, Jr., Charles Herring, and Benjamin Herring were all to become artists, while his two daughters, Ann and Emma, both married painters. - In Doncaster, England, Herring was employed as a painter of inn signs and coach insignia on the sides of coaches, and his later contact with a firm owned by a Mr. Wood led to Herring''''s subsequent employment as a night coach driver. Herring spent his spare time painting portraits of horses for inn parlors, and he became known as the ''''artist coachman'''' (at the time). Herring''''s talent was recognised by wealthy customers, and he began painting hunters and racehorses for the gentry. In 1830, John Frederick Herring, Senior left Doncaster for Newmarket, England, where he spent three years before moving to London, England. During this time, Herring might have received tuition from Abraham Cooper. In Londo...