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Artist: Sir Alfred John Munnings "The Chase" - Water-colour Fine Art Painting - The Willow Gallery Weybridge Surrey & London - Fine Art Gallery

Artist: Sir Alfred John Munnings 1878 - 1959

Title: "The Chase"

Dimensions: Canvas size 12" by 27", Frame size 22" by 27"

Medium: Water-colour on paper, signed

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Sir Alfred John Munnings - Biography

Sir Alfred Munnings was one of England’s finest painters of horses and hunting scenes. Born in Mendham, Suffolk , his artistic talent was recognised even before he started school. From 1893 to 1898 he was an apprentice of Page Brothers, a firm of lithographers in Norwich, where he worked during the day as a poster artist and attended Norwich Art School in the evening. Examples of his posters can be seen in the studio at Castle House.

During that time he came to the attention of John Shaw Tomkins, a director of Caley’s Chocolates, who greatly encouraged him and became his first patron.

In 1898, still working at Page Brothers, Munnings had his first painting accepted and hung at the Royal Academy , which was to be the first of his 230 pictures hung in the Royal Academy .

Apart from time studying at Julian’s Atelier in Paris where he was introduced to race courses, a theme for which he became famous for. After his return to he lived and worked in Mendham, painting horses and scenes of country life. In 1908 he joined the famous Newlyn School of artists in Cornwall , to become an important member. He established himself at Lamorna and it was there that he became friendly with Harold and Laura Knight.

Despite of having lost the sight of his right eye in an accident, Munnings enlisted in the Army, when World War One broke out in 1914. He became an army horse trainer near Reading and was later sent to as an official war artist, attached to the Canadian Cavalry Brigade.

The end of the war was a major turning point in his career and his life. He painted his first race horse, the Grand National ..

Other paintings by Sir Alfred Munnings in the Nov 2007 Willow Gallery collection include "In Dappled Sunlight "

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About The Willow Gallery

"Established in 1986, the Willow Gallery has always promoted a reputation of excellence as one of the country's leading provincial Fine Art Galleries. We specialise only in the finest quality English and European 19th and early 20th century oil paintings.

The Willow Gallery offers the collector an extensive inventory, ranging from genre, children, landscape, seascape and portrait."

"To view our full collection, visit our Gallery in Duke St London or alternatively see us at one of the major international fine art and antique fairs around the world."

Willow Gallery has relocated from Weybridge Surrey to Duke St, London

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