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Petre, and Pantomime, by Grimaldi, may be men- 

 tioned as particularly good examples of Herring's 

 art. 



Herring was fond of the Arab, and the horse that 

 figures most frequently in his pictures (other than 

 portraits) is the white stallion Imaum, one of the 

 four first horses sent by the Imaum of Muscat to 

 Her Majesty. He was presented to the Clerk of 

 the Royal stables, who sold him at Tattersall's. 

 Imaum was an invaluable " property horse." When 

 Herring required a model for the dead horses to be 

 portrayed in a picture of the Battle of Waterloo, 

 he sent for a black trainer, named Pedro, from 

 Batty's Circus, who taught the Arab to lie down. 

 A few lessons made him so complete a trick horse 

 that Pedro declared he wanted only youth to beat 

 out of the field all the accepted favourites of the 

 circus ring. He was a stout one, too, as we are 

 told that Herring drove him, with an English horse, 

 about seventy-five miles in one day from Camber- 

 well to Stevenage and back, when he was paint- 

 ing his picture " Steeplechase Cracks " for Lord 

 Strathmore. 



It is worth drawing attention to the fact that, as 

 in the case of Thomas Gooch, few horse portraits — 

 and of these only one of a classic winner, namely, 

 Rockingham shown in 1838 — occur in Herring's 

 list of twenty-two works sent to the Royal 



