![Sir Alfred James Munnings - Gypsies on the Downs [1912] by Gandalf's Gallery](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_vz6tBfinhEST_G_qq18NRv4Az4nb3O6YJvzatixZ2lKYxLp04D7TBNHEHDMl-Q7EP71nXYHR4lRYItdWuARH6uBdOJD5KraUNRzc__c6pBJJmn3PhJdERJl0rqHS6mM7c=s0-d)
Sir Alfred James Munnings, PRA, (October 8, 1878 – July 17, 1959) was known as one of England's finest painters of horses, and as an outspoken enemy of Modernism. Engaged by Lord Beaverbrook's Canadian War Memorials Fund, he earned several prestigious commissions after the Great War that made him wealthy. Alfred Munnings was in Mendham, Suffolk across the River Waveney from Harleston in Norfolk. He was awarded a knighthood in 1944. He died at Castle House, Dedham, Essex. After his death, his wife turned their home in Dedham into a museum of his work. The village pub in Mendham is named after him.
[Oil on canvas, 15½ x 11½ inches]
No comments:
Post a Comment