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“At last I was seeing the colour of a scarlet coat in the sun, the sheen of a clipped horse, with the lighting on fences, tree trunks, fields.”

These words written by Munnings are exemplified in Hunting Morning, painted when he was working in Cornwall.

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2023-03-29

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2023-03-26

“..Some years later I designed the back-cloth for one of the Chelsea Arts Ball. It was for sun-worship…”

🌞 See ‘Sun Worship’ and many more of Munnings’ imaginative works on display this season from Wednesday 5th April 2023 🌞

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2023-03-25

🖼️ ‘Major E. Shackle, Buckinghamshire Farmers' Hunt’
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See Major E. Shackle and Munnings’ other depictions of the hunt on display in the dining room at Castle House opening on Wednesday 5th April

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2023-03-24

For the this week we are celebrating ♀

We share Munnings’ ‘Laura Knight Painting’, c1911. From

🖼️ View on Art UK
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2023-03-09

Munnings clearly admired his tutor and writes in his autobiography:

“For the greater part of six years I worked under her … What lessons she gave in water-colour painting! Her enthusiasm was as great as her skill … what a lot I learned from Miss Offord!”

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2023-03-08

Under Starter's Orders, Newmarket Start, Cries of 'No, No, Sir', 1957.

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2023-03-05

Happy 🐴🌿🐑🌳🌾

“..It is strange how the landscape of one county varies. In some districts there are still many oaks and elms. In others the trees are few, the landscape looking like a wilderness.”

Sir Alfred Munnings in his Autobiography.

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2023-03-03

A century after many of them were first written, we published ‘Yours with Love, AJ’ - the book. Based on 54 letters transcribed by the museum it reveals never before seen correspondence from Sir Alfred Munnings to his wife.

📕 Buy ‘Yours with Love, AJ’ https://t.co/RMhOSXUSku

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2023-02-14

🐴 today is all about Lady Munnings’ horse Cheena…

“…Cheena next, my wife's old friend and companion. Sweet, kindly, long-suffering Cheena, with large ears, a kind eye and a beautiful forelock and mane. I love her…” - Munnings in his Autobiography.

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2023-02-05

Whilst living in Norwich in the 1890s, Munnings attended evening classes at the Norwich school of art.

Munnings wrote: "Norwich itself was then a beautiful place... I now realise what a playground it was for the artist. No wonder it had its famous Norwich School of Painters…”

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2023-02-01

In celebration of tonight, we share three versions of Munnings’ ‘Isabella’.

Munnings was clearly taken with this imagined heroine as he created several different pictures on the subject.

 

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2023-01-26

Winter at Flatford by Alfred Munnings (1878-1959)
(Private Collection)

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2023-01-19

⛄️“Just as I was laying aside my paper I was reminded of a winter at Withypool with deep snow.”

- Sir Alfred Munnings in his Autobiography.

‘Winter in Our Garden at Withypool, Exmoor’ 1940s

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2022-12-24

The 1920s&30s witnessed the consolidation of a highly regarded artistic career for Munnings & firmly established his reputation as a masterly equine painter.

This portrait of Major E Shackle (Buckinghamshire Farmers' Hunt) is a wonderful example of Munnings’ work at this time.

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2022-12-10

Looking for a Munnings greetings card to send this Christmas ?

Browse greetings and Christmas cards on our online shop..

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2022-12-07

“Art is long, life is short-like the races.” - Sir Alfred Munnings.

‘Bungay Races, Suffolk’, 1901

‘Before the Race’

‘Solario’ c1926


‘Study of Figures at the Races’

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2022-12-06

❄️It’s 1st December today…

Shop our Christmas Card pack (Poster Design for Caley & Son LTD)

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2022-12-01

Ned Osborne was Munnings main model for the hunting scenes he painted in Cornwall.

“ …using him and the horses placed where I wanted them-in a pinewood, on a moor…” 

The site for this scene is believed to be Trevelloe Woods near Lamorna.

Hunting Morning, 1913.

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2022-11-25

Grey Horse appreciation post 🤍 🐴
Munnings wrote in his autobiography:“Grey horses were always my delight”

‘The Grey Mare’

‘The Grey Pony Augereau, in a Sandpit with Groom George Curzon’ 1905

‘The Grey Charger’ c1920

‘Study of a Grey Hunter’

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