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'St Patrick'

Name: 'St Patrick'
Brand: The Paddock
SKU: PA-00072

John Frederick Herring Sr., oil on canvas, 1820

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No print size passed the check for this piece: at 10 x 8 in, 76 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.

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St Patrick stands in three-quarter profile against a plain ground, an early commission for a painter not yet thirty. This is Herring before the formula hardened into habit — the anatomy is already exact, the confidence of the later stud portraits still a few years off. the slight stiffness through the hind leg, the one place the young painter hadn't yet loosened his hand. A whole career's grammar, learned on one horse.

Maker: John Frederick Herring Sr., oil on canvas
Date: 1820
Medium of the original: Painting
Original held by: Private collection
Credit: Private collection
Rights: Cleared for print
Catalogue number: PA-00072

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How the print check works

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
10 x 8 in	76 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
12 x 8 in	Wrong shape: a 13% crop
14 x 11 in	55 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
16 x 12 in	50 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
18 x 12 in	Wrong shape: a 13% crop
20 x 16 in	38 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
24 x 16 in	Wrong shape: a 13% crop
24 x 18 in	33 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
30 x 20 in	Wrong shape: a 13% crop
30 x 24 in	25 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
36 x 24 in	Wrong shape: a 13% crop
40 x 30 in	20 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
48 x 36 in	16 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
60 x 40 in	Wrong shape: a 13% crop