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Description: | Oil on canvas. This subject was clearly popular as the artist produced several versions of it. An identical composition, signed by John Frederick Herring senior and dated 1848 (some 13 years after this work was painted) was sold through Christie’s in London on 25 November 2003. In 1851, Herring painted another version, which includes the same group of horses emerging from the stable door but looking towards a group of chickens, gathered around a bowl (sold through Christie’s, New York, 28 November 2007). Demand for his works may have encouraged his tendency to repeat compositions. In a letter of 1848 he remarked to his patron Charles Spencer Stanhope, that ‘pictures were no sooner seen than purchased'. | Subjects: | farm bird grass horse door stable pig | Temporal: | 1835 | Source: | Government Art Collection | Creator: | John Frederick Herring Snr | Identifier: | http://www.gac.culture.gov.uk/work.aspx?... | Go to resource |
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