A j munnings biography wikipedia

By signing up you agree to terms and conditions and privacy policy. I agree to the Art UK terms and conditions and privacy policy. Sign up to the Art UK newsletter , a weekly edit of insightful art stories. My Wife, My Horse and Myself exhibited English Impressionistic painter and occasional sculptor. Alfred Munnings was the son of an East Anglian mill owner.

He began his career as an apprentice lithographer in Norwich before rising through the ranks of the Royal Academy to become its President in At the age of 20, he was blinded in his right eye, however he was undeterred, painting paint ponies, rural life, travelling communities and idyllic landscapes.

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His paintings capture the British countryside before widespread industrialisation and urbanisation. His paintings made in France at the end of the First World War depict the close relationship between man and horse, such as the Canadian Cavalry Brigade watering their horses or the Canadian Forestry Corps hard at work in the huge forests of war-torn France.

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