A Private European Residence: French and Neoclassical Furniture and Paintings & Works on Paper

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Lot 422
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John Frederick Herring Snr 1795-1865

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 GBP
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Description

  • John Frederick Herring Snr
  • The horse fair on Southborough Common
  • signed l.l.:J.F.Herring Senr. 1859. to 62.
  • oil on canvas

Catalogue Note

This fascinating composition relates to a painting of the horse fair on Southborough Common, Kent, which Herring pained in 1857-58.  In both works Herring has included a portrait of himself standing to the left of the composition wearing a top hat and a three-quarter length coat.