James Herring
James Herring (12 January 1794 – October 1867) was an American painter who specialized in portrait painting.
James Herring
James Herring (U.S., 1794-1867) (attributed to) · Staten Island Museum, "Art Collection Handbook: 100 Selected Works of Art from the Permanent Collection," Staten Island, N.Y.: The Museum, Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences, 1981, pg. 53. · Public domain
- Born
- 1794 · London.
- Died
- 1867 · Paris.
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- painter
- Fields
- portrait
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James Herring (12 January 1794 – October 1867) was an American painter who specialized in portrait painting.
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His father emigrated to the United States in 1804, and became a brewer and distiller in the Bowery neighborhood of New York City. The son began by coloring prints and maps, and moved to Philadelphia, where he entered into the business of coloring maps, but returned to New York, and settled in Chatham Square as a portrait painter. He illustrated, with James Barton Longacre, American biography in the National Portrait Gallery (3 vols., Philadelphia, 1834–39).
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His son, Frederick William Herring (born in New York City, 24 November 1821), studied art with his father and Henry Inman, and also devoted himself to portrait painting.
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Asher Brown Durand / James Herring / Charles C. Ingham · This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. See the Image and Data Resources Open Access Policy
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Asher Brown Durand / Chester Harding / James Herring · This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. See the Image and Data Resources Open Access Policy
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1794
James Herring was born in 1794 at London.
1867
James Herring died in 1867 at Paris.
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