Title - Shoeing Imaum (1856)

Artist - John Frederick Herring Senior

Imaum was the model for numerous pictures by Herring painted at his home, Meopham Park. The famous white Arab was the first of four horses given to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert from the Imaum of Muscat. The Queen then gifted him to the Clerk of the Royal Stables who sold him through Tattersall's where Herring was the successful bidder.

He was clearly an impressive animal; on one occasion Herring was reputedly approached by a gentleman in Piccadilly who offered him two hundred guineas for the horse; an offer that was refused despite the potential profit