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Drawings — Collections: Including the Property of the Earl of Harewood and from a Private Roman Apartment Overlooking the Tiber
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Lot 39 SIR ALFRED JAMES MUNNINGS, P.R.A., R.W.S. (BRITISH, 1878-1959)
Alfred James Munnings (1878 - 1959) 
Alfred James Munnings
08.10.1878 - 17.07.1959
United Kingdom
Alfred James Munnings was known as one of England's finest painters of horses, and as an outspoken critic of Modernism. Engaged by Lord Beaverbrook's Canadian War Memorials Fund, he earned several prestigious commissions after the Great War that made him wealthy. Between 1912 and 1914 he was a member of the Newlyn School of artists. His work was part of the art competitions at the 1928 Summer Olympics, the 1932 Summer Olympics, and the 1948 Summer Olympics.
Munnings was president of the Royal Academy of Arts from 1944 until his death.