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Birth
1878 (Mendham, Suffolk, England)
Death
1959
Lived/Active
United Kingdom/England
Self portrait
Often Known For
country life genre painting
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Sir Alfred James Munnings KCVO, PRA (8 October 1878–17 July 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 born 8 October 1878 at Mendham, Suffolk across the River Waveney from Harleston in Norfolk. At fourteen he was apprenticed to a Norwich printer, designing and drawing (showing 500 of 5302 characters). |
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