John Frederick Herring, Sen. (1795-1865)

The Colonel, a chestnut racehorse, winner of the Great St. Leger Stakes, Doncaster, 1828, with William Scott up, the Hon. Edward Petre on a bay hack to the left, and a groom standing beside them

细节

John Frederick Herring, Sen. (1795-1865)
The Colonel, a chestnut racehorse, winner of the Great St. Leger Stakes, Doncaster, 1828, with William Scott up, the Hon. Edward Petre on a bay hack to the left, and a groom standing beside them
oil on canvas
28 x 36 in. (71 x 91½ cm.)

来源

Bought by William Munro, circa 1920, and by descent to the vendor.

出版

O. Beckett, J.F. Herring and Sons, London and New York, 1981, p. 100, no. 4.
D. Livingstone-Learmouth, The Horse in Art, 1958, illustrated p. 73.

拍品专文

The Colonel was a chesnut colt by Whisker out of the dam of My Lady, foaled in 1825, bred by Mr. Wyvill at Burton Constable, and owned by the Hon. Edward Petre. Amongst his most successful performances were the Champagne Stakes at Doncaster in 1827 (so called because the winner had to give the Club six dozen bottles of Champagne), and in 1828 he ran a dead heat with Cadland for the Derby but was beaten in the run off. He won the St. Leger at Doncaster in the same year, where he beat Major Yarburgh's Belinda and Mr. Armitage's Velocipede. Later that year he was bought by King George IV for 4,000 gns. In 1830 and 1831 he won the Craven Stakes, and he was taken out of training and joined the Hampton Court Stud.

A portrait of The Colonel on Doncaster racecourse, with W. Scott up, following his success in the St. Leger, was engraved by R. G. Reeve, after a painting by Herring, and was published on 15 January 1829 by S. & J. Fuller; the plate was dedicated to the Hon. E. Petre. This was one of the sequence of St. Leger winners executed after Herring stretching from 1815-1840, and carried on by others to 1845.