Mountain Ponies, Welch Hills.
date: label: Date made
content: 1855
name: label: publisher
content: Lloyd Brothers
label: maker
content: Day & Son
label: artist
content: Herring, J.F. Sr.
notes: label: Description
content: A color print of ponies running in herds on grassy mountain slopes. Their coats are brown, white, back, and bay. Huge boulders and rocky peaks give the environment a rugged appearance. There are strong contrasts between the light and shade.
label: Description
content: The firm of Day and Son was run by Benjamin H. Day and his son Benjamin H. Day Jr. Benjamin Jr. was an artist, illustrator and inventor; born in New York City in 1838. His father was a publisher and Benjamin Jr. began working as a designer in his father’s shop throughout the 1860’s. He exhibited at the National Academy in 1885. Benjamin Jr. died in Summit N.J. in 1916.
label: Description
content: Herring, born in London 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. 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 recognized by wealthy customers, and he began painting hunters and racehorses for the gentry. In 1845, Herring was appointed Animal Painter to HRH the Duchess of Kent, followed by a subsequent commission from the ruling Queen Victoria, who remained a patron for the rest of his life. A highly successful and prolific artist, Herring ranks along with Sir Edwin Landseer as one of the more eminent animal painters of mid-nineteenth (19th) century Europe. The paintings of Herring were very popular, and many were engraved, including his 33 winners of the St. Leger and his 21 winners of the Derby. Herring exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1818–1865, at the British Institution from 1830–1865, and at the Society of British Artists in 1836-1852, where Herring became Vice-President in 1842.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
topic: label: Subject
content: Chronology: 1850-1859
label: Subject
content: Horses
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Art
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content: Peters Prints
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content: Domestic Furnishings
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content: Horses
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.60.3571
label: catalog number
content: 60.3571
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lithograph
label: Object Type
content: Chromolithograph
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: image: 18 7/8 in x 25 in; 47.9425 cm x 63.5 cm