'Three members of the Temperance Society': Three Horses at a Drinking Trough (after J. F. Herring the elder)
after John Frederick Herring the elder (Surrey 1795 – Meopham, Kent 1865)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1847 - 1870
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
610 x 735 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 732317
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, 'Three Members of the Temperance Society':Three horses at a Drinking Trough by John Frederick Herring the elder (Surrey 1795 – Royal Tonbridge Wells 1865), 1847-1870. A variant copy of a painting by John Herring the elder, 1847, in reverse, at the Tate Britain, London. Three closely grouped horses heads, chestnut, grey, and black, seen looking left take water from a trough.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust along with the house, its grounds, and the rest of the contents by Sir Henry Hugh Arthur Hoare, 6th Bt (1865 – 1947) in 1946
Credit line
Stourhead, The Hoare Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
after John Frederick Herring the elder (Surrey 1795 – Meopham, Kent 1865), artist