John Frederick Herring, Snr. (1795-1865)

Fortitude

Details

John Frederick Herring, Snr. (1795-1865)
Fortitude
with signature 'JF Herring' (lower left)
oil on canvas
14½ x 17½ in. (36.9 x 44.4 cm.)

Provenance

The Charles Thieriot Collection of Sporting Paintings, Cedar Hill, Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York.
with Arthur Ackermann & Son, Ltd, London.
Mr W. Freud, Willcoat House, Charlbury, Oxfordshire.

Literature

The Charles Thieriot Collection of Sporting Paintings, 1940, catalogue no. 35.

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Lot Essay

Fortitude
Chestnut filly by Whisker Out
of Fortuna by Commus (1826)
1829, won the champion stakes, Lincoln
1829 The Gold cup
1829 The sweepstakes at Chesterfield
1830 Won silver tureen in the handicap stakes, New York
Her majesty's plate, Lincoln
1831, Second Gavin Stakes, Epsom
1832 Dead healed for free handicap, Liverpool
Won Heaton Park Stakes
Won Manchester Stakes.

Fortitude was owned by Mr Thomas Holdsworth and is seen here with with the jockey Patrick Connolly up. This painting was painted in 1829 before Herring left Doncaster.

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