DIMENSIONS: (unframed) 20 x 24 ins inches (50.8 x 61.0 cm)
SIGNATURE: Signed (lower right)
MEDIUM:Â Oil on board
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Spring, Withypool, Somerset
P.O.A.
Sir Alfred Munnings is quoted in his autobiography ‘An Artist’s Life’, questioning ‘Is this wild country casting its net over me?’. The beauty of the English countryside captured Munnings.
This work relates to a slightly larger work, entitled A View on Exmoor with Bushes in Blossom, in the collection of the Munnings Museum, Dedham.
The Fine Art Society, London, February 1974 (stock no. 5629)
Christopher Wood Gallery, London
Private collection, United Kingdom
Born in Mendham, Suffolk, Alfred Munnings was the son of a miller. He was apprenticed to a firm of lithographers from 1893 to 1898 and studied at the Norwich School of Art and in Paris. There, Munnings was impressed with plein-air naturalism; this, together with his introduction to the racecourse in 1899, influenced the themes for which he became famous.
While in Mendham, Munnings painted many scenes of country life, particularly horse fairs. He went to Cornwall in 1908, and for many years was an important addition to the Newlyn School of artists. When the First World War broke out, Munnings enlisted, despite having the use of only one eye owing to an accident in 1899. He became an army horse trainer near Reading and later went to France as an official war artist, attached to the Canadian Cavalry Brigade.
The year 1919 was a major turning-point in all aspects of Munnings’s life; he painted his first racehorse, Poethlyn, the winner of the Grand National, and became an Associate of the Royal Academy. Munnings met his second wife Violet McBride, whom he was to marry, and bought Castle House, Dedham, where the Munnings Memorial Trust maintains a permanent exhibition of his pictures. Munnings’s prolific career, spanning over 60 years, brought him honour, with election to the Presidency of the Royal Academy in 1944, a Knighthood in 1945, and a personal award from the Sovereign in 1947, when Munnings was created Knight of the Royal Victorian Order.
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