ID 818857
Lot 148 | JOHN FREDERICK HERRING, SR. (BRITISH, 1795-1865)
Estimate value
$ 150 000 – 200 000
Mazeppa
signed and dated 'J. F. Herring Sen/1842.' (lower right)
oil on canvas
43 x 72 5/8 in. (109.2 x 184.6 cm.)
Provenance
William Taylor Copeland (1797-1868), London and Stoke-on-Trent, commissioned from the artist.
Ronald Copeland (1884-1958), his grandson, by descent.
R. Spencer Copeland (1918-2002), Stoke-on-Trent and Feock, Cornwall, his son, by descent.
His sale; Sotheby's, London, 15 July 1992, lot 105.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.
Literature
'Exhibitions,' Edinburgh Magazine, vol. 52, London, September 1842, p. 322.
'Selected Pictures,' The Art Journal, vol. 4, London, 1865, p. 172, illustrated with the engraving, ill. 6.
A. M. W. Stirling, 'The Whip and the Brush,' The Nineteenth Century, vol. 74, London, August 1913, p. 350.
C. K. Bayliss, 'Studies of Famous Pictures - Three Friends of a Temperance Society,' School News and Practical Educator, vol. 33, Taylorville, 1 January 1920, p. 272.
O. Beckett, J. F. Herring & Sons, London, 1981, pp. 48, 53-54, 158, 176, illustrated with the engraving.
R. D. Altick, Paintings from Books: Art and Literature in Britain, 1760-1900, Columbus, 1985, p. 124, note for ill. 93.
J. Johnson, Works Exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists, 1824-1893 and the New English Art Club, 1888-1917, Woodbridge, UK, 1993, p. 226.
H. Morris, Hand, Head and Heart: Samuel Carter Hall and 'The Art Journal,' Norwich, 2002, p. 199.
D. Donald, Picturing Animals in Britain 1750-1850, New Haven and London, 2007, p. 206, illustrated with the engraving, fig. 191.
Exhibited
London, Royal Society of British Artists, 1842, no. 521.
Stoke-on-Trent, Athenaeum, Townhall, 1854, as Mazeppa on the Wild Horse.
| Artist: | John Frederick Herring I (1795 - 1865) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Artist: | John Frederick Herring I (1795 - 1865) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
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