Artist: J.F. Herring Senior
Title: Night
Size: 28" x 37"
About the Editions: The Atelier Collection is an historic collection of hand-pulled and hand-coloured engravings and a small selection of hand-coloured prints. Rosenstiel's has built up the collection since the company was founded in 1880 and the original copper plates from which the prints are pulled span two centuries of print history. Each print is painstakingly pulled by skilled craftsmen, using techniques which have changed little over the last four hundred years. Most images are then hand-coloured by a skilled watercolourist, whilst some are carefully inked in the plate.
Medium: Restrike Engraving - The paper used for the intaglio prints is acid-free and 100% cotton rag. It is also substantial, ranging in weight from 270g/m2 to 300g/m2. The paper used for the photo-mechanical prints is also acid-free. Some is part cotton rag; the rest is made from highly refined cellulose wood-free fibre. All is of excellent, durable quality and of good weight. The inks used for the intaglio prints are made by Charbonnel of Paris. In the case of certain colour prints, pigments may be ground by hand in pure linseed oil. All hand colouring is done with artists' watercolour of the best quality, supplemented by special pigments such as gamboge (to achieve the richest yellows) and gum arabic (to impart a soft sheen to appropriate areas). Traditional colours and colouring methods are carefully respected.
About the Artist: Born in 1795, John Frederick Herring spent the first eighteen years of his life in London, before moving to Doncaster. In Yorkshire, he married and began to earn his living as a humble painter of inn signs and coach insignia.

Sketching equestrian subjects in his spare time, Herring’s talent was quickly noticed and he soon found himself painting hunters and racehorses for local patrons. He lived for a time in Newmarket, and then in London, where he may have been tutored by a well-known artist of the time, Abraham Cooper. In London, he acquired new patrons and was even invited to France by the Duc d’Orléans.

Herring exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1818 and 1846. His work was also shown at the British Institute and, most frequently, at the Society of British Artists in Sussex Street, of which he was a Member between 1841 and 1862.

For many years, Herring was commissioned to paint the winners of the Derby and the St. Leger as well as many other famous contemporary horses and jockeys. He also painted many charming small-scale studies of rabbits, ducks, goats, birds and other animals.

Herring held the appointment of Animal Painter to the Duchess of Kent and a number of his works were engraved. Towards the end of his life he settled down as a country squire at Meopham Park near Tonbridge.

Three of his sons; JF Junior, Charles and Benjamin, became prominent artists and his two daughters also married artists, ensuring that the Herring family is one of the most significant in the history of British art. Herring died in 1865.
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