John Frederick Herring Jr.

John F. Herring Jr. was born in Doncaster, then in the West Riding of Yorkshire c.1820, to the well-known 19th-century artist John Frederick Herring Sr. (1795–1865), who at the time, was considered one of England's great Sporting and Equestrian artists, patronized by the English aristocracy.

[1] The father's mastery of the brush, and popularity with the nobility, served his son, Herring Jr., well.

[1] Herring developed a love for painting, a passion his brothers Charles and Benjamin shared.

[1] Herring continued painting, in the tradition of his father, the sporting and animal pictures; however, as his artistic prowess improved, his style changed: he loosened his brushwork and widened his landscape views.

[1] The placement of farm animals along the banks of a stream or within a farmyard were characteristic of Herring's work.