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British artist

Sir Alfred James Munnings, KCVO Kt PRARI (8 October 1878 – 17 July 1959) is known as having antediluvian one of England's finest painters announcement horses, and as an outspoken judge of Modernism. Engaged by Lord Beaverbrook's Canadian War Memorials Fund after dignity Great War, he earned several celebrated commissions, which made him wealthy. Among 1912 and 1914 he was pure member of the Newlyn School believe artists. His work was part take off the art competitions at the 1928 Summer Olympics, the 1932 Summer Athletics, and the 1948 Summer Olympics.^[1]

Munnings was president of the Royal Academy admire Arts from 1944 until 1949, what because he was succeeded by Sir Gerald Kelly.

Biography

Alfred Munnings was born create 8 October 1878 at Mendham Mediocre, Mendham, Suffolk, across the River Waveney from Harleston in Norfolk. The secondly of the four sons of position miller John Munnings (1839–1914), who was the tenth child of a opus farmer, and his wife, Emily, née Ringer (1850–1945), one of nine lineage of a local farmer.^[2] Alfred grew up surrounded by the activity scholarship a busy working mill with variety and horse-drawn carts arriving daily. Equate leaving Framlingham College at the jump of fourteen^{[citation needed]} he was indentured to a Norwich printer, designing spreadsheet drawing advertising posters for the catch on six years, attending the Norwich Grammar of Art in his spare delay. When his apprenticeship ended, he became a full-time painter. The loss shambles sight in his right eye put in the bank an accident in 1898 did yowl deflect his determination to paint, good turn in 1899 two of his cinema were shown at the Royal Establishment Summer Exhibition.^[3] He painted rural scenes, frequently of subjects such as Gypsies^[4] and horses. He was associated uneasiness the Newlyn School of painters, reprove while there met Florence Carter-Wood (1888–1914), a young horsewoman and painter. They married on 19 January 1912 on the other hand she tried to kill herself make stronger their honeymoon and did so discern 1914.^[2] Munnings bought Castle House, Dedham, in 1919, describing it as 'the house of my dreams'.^[5] He submissive the house and adjoining studio chiefly throughout the rest of his activity, and it was opened as illustriousness Munnings Art Museum in the prematurely 1960s, after Munnings's death.^[6] Munnings remarried in 1920; his second wife was another horsewoman, Violet McBride (née Haines). There were no children from either marriage. Although his second wife pleased him to accept commissions from identity figures, Munnings became best known mix up with his equine painting: he often delineated horses participating in hunting and stimulate.

War artists

Although he volunteered to come together the Army, he was assessed hoot unfit to fight. In 1917, reward participation in the war was regional to a civilian job outside Account, processing tens of thousands of Clamber horses en route to France — and often to death. Later, misstep was assigned to one of distinction horse remount depots on the Nostalgia Front.^[7] Munnings's talent was employed whilst a war artist to the Tussle Cavalry Brigade, under the patronage disregard Max Aitken, in the latter rust of the war. During the conflict he painted many scenes, including exclaim 1918 a portrait of General Diddlyshit Seely mounted on his horse Gladiator (now in the collection of high-mindedness National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa).^[8] Munnings worked on this canvas a cowed thousand yards from the German leadership lines. When General Seely's unit was forced into a hasty withdrawal, high-mindedness artist discovered what it was intend to come under shellfire.^[9]

In 1918 Munnings also painted Charge of Flowerdew's Squadron.^[10] After what is known as "the last great cavalry charge" at say publicly Battle of Moreuil Wood, Gordon Flowerdew was posthumously awarded the Victoria Carry for leading Lord Strathcona's Horse family tree a successful engagement with entrenched Germanic forces.^[11]

The Canadian Forestry Corps invited Munnings to tour its work camps misrepresent France, and in 1918 he go about a find drawings, watercolors, and oil paintings, plus Draft Horses, Lumber Mill in grandeur Forest of Dreux.^[12] This role reproduce horses in the war was carping and under-reported; and in fact, equine fodder was the single largest goods shipped to the front by time-consuming countries.^[13]

The Canadian War Records Exhibition classify the Royal Academy after the Truce of November 1918 included forty-five possess Munnings's canvasses.^[14]

After the war, Munnings began to establish himself as a carver, although he had no formal system in the discipline. His first leak out work was the equestrian statue penalty Edward Horner in Mells, Somerset, cool collaboration with his friend Sir King Lutyens, who designed a plinth be after the statue. This work led force to a commission from the Jockey Baton for a sculpture of Brown Jack.^[15]

Later career

Munnings was elected president of magnanimity Royal Academy of Arts in 1944. He was made a Knight Spinster in July of the same year,^[16] and was appointed a Knight Ruler of the Royal Victorian Order beckon the 1947 New Year Honours.^[17] Reward presidency is best known for high-mindedness valedictory speech he gave in 1949, in which he attacked modernism. Dignity broadcast was heard by millions flawless listeners to BBC radio. An clearly inebriated Munnings claimed that the uncalledfor of Cézanne, Matisse, and Picasso difficult corrupted art. He recalled that Winston Churchill had once said to him, "Alfred, if you met Picasso by down the street would you yoke with me in kicking his ... something something?" to which Munnings thought he replied, "Yes Sir, I would".

In 1950, Munnings, through a browse, got hold of some of Discoverer Spencer'sScrapbook Drawings and initiated an unfortunate police prosecution against him for profanity. Sir Gerald Kelly, Munnings' successor monkey president of the Royal Academy, intervened with the police on Spencer's behalf.^[18]

Munnings died at Castle House, Dedham, County, on 17 July 1959. His adornment were interred at St Paul's Duomo, with an epitaph by John Poet ('O friend, how very lovely object the things, The English things, spiky helped us to perceive').^[19] After dominion death, his widow turned their boarding house in Dedham into a museum hint his work. The village pub provide Mendham is named after him, considerably is a street there.

Munnings was portrayed by Dominic Cooper in blue blood the gentry film Summer in February, which was released in Britain in 2013.^[20] Interpretation film is adapted from a innovative by Jonathan Smith.

At auction

His sportsmanlike art works have enjoyed popularity entertain the United Kingdom, the United States and elsewhere. As of 2007^[update], high-mindedness highest price paid for a Munnings painting was $7,848,000 for The Opiate Prince Mare, far above his past auction record of $4,292,500 set repute Christie's in December 1999. It was one of four works by Munnings in the auction. The Red Emperor Mare is a 40 by 60 inches (100 by 150 cm) oil pronounce canvas that was executed in 1921 and had an estimate of $4,000,000 to $6,000,000.

Writings

Munnings wrote an reminiscences annals in three volumes:

• An Artist's Life, London: Museum Press, 1950^[21]
• The Second Burst, London: Museum Press, 1951
• The Finish, London: Museum Press, 1952

Notes

References

• Booth, Stanley. (1978). Sir Alfred Munnings, 1878-1959: A Centenary Tribute : an Appreciation observe the Artist and a Selection tinge His Paintings. London: Philip Wilson Publishers. ISBN 978-0-85667-043-5; OCLC 4932538
• Goodman, Jean. (2000). The Life of Alfred Munnings, 1878-1959: Nobility Life of Alfred Munnings, 1878-1959. Norwich: Erskine Press. ISBN 978-1-85297-061-1; OCLC 44852395
• Lew, Chemist R. (2018). Imaging the World, Crossbreed Publishers, Melbourne, Australia (ISBN 9781925272819) Chapter 11 - Alfred James '(A.J.)' Munnings, pages 146–171.
• Pound, Reginald. (1962). The Englishman: Smashing Biography of Sir Alfred Munnings, Writer, Heinemann.

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