28 ANIMAL I'AINTERS 



Leger and Cesarewitch, 1845 ; Pyrrhus ist, winner 

 of the Derby, 1846 ; Mendicant, winner of the 

 One Thousand and Oaks, 1846 ; Sir Tatton 

 Sykes, winner of the St. Leger and Cesarewitch, 

 1846. Camarine, whose portrait Herring painted, 

 was a remarkable mare. Foaled in 1828 she 

 ran in neither the Derby nor the Oaks of her 

 year but had a highly successful turf career, 

 beating among others in 1831, Spaniel, winner 

 of that year's Derby ; Oxygen, winner of the Oaks 

 of that year; and in 1832 she beat Rowton, 

 winner of the St. Leger of 1829. 



Smolensko, winner of the Two Thousand and 

 Derby of 1813, and Comus are said by " Druid" 

 to have been the first race horses on whose portraits 

 Herring tried his 'prentice hand. The same writer, 

 who visited the artist at Meopham Park, near 

 Tunbridge Wells, in the early sixties, says : "His 

 great racing pictures were generally got by the aid 

 of a sketch-book, with ideal horses and jockeys, 

 which a few strokes from life at the post con- 

 verted into portraits." The "Druid" was able at 

 Meopham Park to trace " in a pictured line the 

 Cotherstone pedigree on both sides till the Whale- 

 bone and Whisker strains united." 



Among his many portraits of hunters those of 

 Everton, a bay belonging to Mr. J. Maunsell 

 Richardson ; Sultan, a favourite of the Hon. E. 



