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Biography
Alfred James Munnings was known as one of England's finest painters of horses. Engaged by Lord Beaverbrook's Canadian War Memorials Fund, he earned several prestigious post-World War commissions that made him wealthy.
Munnings grew up in the countryside of the Waveney Valley and left school at the age of 14 for a six-year apprenticeship with a firm of lithographers in Norwich, where he came to excel as a lithographic draughtsman while also studying painting in evening classes. He left the printing business after his apprenticeship, supporting himself through freelance poster work and occasional sales of paintings. The loss of sight in his right eye in an accident in 1898 did not deflect his determination to paint, and in 1899 two of his pictures were shown at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. (continued on the bottom)
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A visit to the Lavenham Horse Fair sparked off Munnings’ lifelong fascination with painting. Country fairs became a frequent subject. For short periods in 1902 and 1903 Munnings studied at the Académie Julian in Paris, where he received little tuition but drew inspiration from the paintings he saw there. Still based in the Suffolk countryside he continued to paint landscapes and scenes from local life. In 1909 Munnings visited Munich, where he was struck by the broad brushwork and sense of movement in a painting by the German painter Henrich von Zügel (1850–1941); he endeavored to achieve similar effects.
In 1911 he joined the artists’ colony at Newlyn, Cornwall, where he shared the common enthusiasm for painting directly from nature. His subject matter there continued to center on horses and also on gypsy life. Munnings was turned down for active service in World War I but was sent to France in 1918 to record the actions of the Canadian Cavalry Brigade. On visiting the USA for six months in 1924 Munnings was besieged with society commissions. In 1926 he was elected RA and President of the Royal Academy in 1944. After his death his wife turned their home in Dedham into a museum of his work.
Sir Alfred James Munnings in Museums and Web Sites (Click on link to view image)