Lot 124
  • 124

John Frederick Herring Snr.

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
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Description

  • John Frederick Herring Snr.
  • A Greyhound in a Landscape
  • signed J. F. Herring and dated 1855 (lower left)
  • oil on canvas
  • 16 1/2 by 20 1/2 in.
  • 41.9 by 52.1 cm

Provenance

William Oliver Poole Collection, Alice, Texas

Exhibited

Lexington, Kentucky Horse Park, International Museum of the Horse; Corpus Christi, Texas, Art Museum of South Texas; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Museum of Art; Charleston, West Virginia, Museums at Sunrise; Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Paine Art Center & Arboretum; Hanover, New Hampshire, Dartmouth College, Hood Museum of Art; Abilene Texas, Abilene Fine Arts Museum, The Poole Collection, 1980-1983

Literature

Julie Britt, ed., The Poole Collection, 1980, p. 35, illustrated

Condition

The work is in good condition, the canvas is lined, light craquelure throughout. UNDER UV: inpainting around the edge of the hound, on black spots of hound and a few areas in the landscape.
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