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Provenance
with Richard Green Fine Paintings, London
Private collection, UK
Literature
Oliver Beckett, J.F.Herring & Sons, London, 1981, cat. no.240, illustrated pl.36
For a secondary version of the present lot, also dated 1852, see Christie's London, 8 June 2006, lot 72. An engraving of this picture by G. Paterson was published by Messrs. Lloyd Bros. & Co., Ludgate Hill, in October 1854.
This is said to show the barn at Meopham Park, Kent. Herring's home from circa 1852 until his death. The figures are reputed to depict the artist's son Charles (1828-1856) and his daughter Jennie (born 1833).