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Academy. Mindful perhaps of the tastes of the 

 wider public for whom that exhibition caters, he 

 most frequently sent scenes of country life in 

 which horses figure as more or less conspicuous 

 accessories. The Sporting Magazine s Academy 

 critic remarks of the portrait of Slane, winner 

 of the Waterloo Shield at Goodwood, shown in 

 1838, that it "seems to add point to a remark 

 that has been made, and that not unfrequently, 

 that Herring's portraits are always in a quiet 

 position, with the head either one way or the 

 other; it may be incorrect, but it is certainly borne 

 out by the two in the exhibition and of many 

 within memory ; nevertheless it is in the painter's 

 best style and must be prized as a finished 

 portrait." 



Herring's rural scenes are remarkable for the 

 wonderful delicacy and finish of the minor details ; 

 the poultry and other fowls introduced in his 

 numerous farmyard pictures are always wonder- 

 fully painted. So much of his attention was 

 bestowed upon pictures of this class in his later 

 years that we find a critic complaining that 

 " Herrinof grows more and more of an as^ri- 

 culturist," " The Timber Carriage," " Going to 

 the Fair," " The Frugal Meal," " Members of the 

 Temperance Society," and "The Ferry " are good 

 examples of Herring's achievements in this school 

 of painting. 



