Full name: Alfred James Munnings
Gender: Male
Born: October 8, 1878 in Mendham, Suffolk, Great Britain
Died: July 17, 1959 in Dedham, Essex, Great Britain
Title: Sir
Country: Great Britain
Sport: Art Competitions
Sir Alfred Munnings was known as one of Britain's finest painters of horses, and an outspoken enemy of Modernism. He became quite wealthy, as his paintings were collected by the Royal family and the high society. Munnings attended the Norwich School of Art and then became a full-time painter. Between 1912 and 1914, Munnings was a member of the Newlyn School, an artistsâ colony in Cornwall, where he lived alongside fellow painters [Dame Laura Knight] and her husband, [Harold]. Munnings met his first wife Florence Carter Wood (1888â1914) who first tried to kill herself on their honeymoon and then did so in 1914. He was then remarried in 1920 to Violet McBride. During World War I he was an official war artist painting horse scenes in battles. Munnings participated in three Olympic Games in the Art Competitions (1928, 1932 and 1948) with several paintings. He was elected president of the Royal Academy of Art in 1944, and was awarded a knighthood the same year. His desire to make his paintings accessible after his 1959 death resulted in Lady Munnings opening Castle House to the public in 1961. |
Games | Age | City | Sport | Country | Phase | Unit | Rank | Title | |
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1928 Summer | 49 | Amsterdam | Art Competitions | Great Britain | Final Standings | AC | His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales | ||
1928 Summer | 49 | Amsterdam | Art Competitions | Great Britain | Final Standings | AC | Le Matin | ||
1928 Summer | 49 | Amsterdam | Art Competitions | Great Britain | Final Standings | AC | Le Commandant Bouch à Cheval | ||
1928 Summer | 49 | Amsterdam | Art Competitions | Great Britain | Final Standings | AC | Chiens | ||
1928 Summer | 49 | Amsterdam | Art Competitions | Great Britain | Final Standings | AC | Le Matin Aux Kennels |
Games | Age | City | Sport | Country | Phase | Unit | Rank | Title | |
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1932 Summer | 53 | Los Angeles | Art Competitions | Great Britain | Final Standings | AC | Shooting Party in Fields of Turnips | ||
1948 Summer | 69 | London | Art Competitions | Great Britain | Final Standings | AC | hors concours | Study for Start I | |
1948 Summer | 69 | London | Art Competitions | Great Britain | Final Standings | AC | hors concours | Unsaddling | |
1948 Summer | 69 | London | Art Competitions | Great Britain | Final Standings | AC | hors concours | Study for Start II | |
1948 Summer | 69 | London | Art Competitions | Great Britain | Final Standings | AC | hors concours | Study of the Horse | |
1948 Summer | 69 | London | Art Competitions | Great Britain | Final Standings | AC | hors concours | Study â Going out at Kempton | |
1948 Summer | 69 | London | Art Competitions | Great Britain | Final Standings | AC | hors concours | Study for Newmarket â Start | |
1948 Summer | 69 | London | Art Competitions | Great Britain | Final Standings | AC | hors concours | Going out at Kempton | |
1948 Summer | 69 | London | Art Competitions | Great Britain | Final Standings | AC | hors concours | Saddling Paddock | |
1948 Summer | 69 | London | Art Competitions | Great Britain | Final Standings | AC | hors concours | Study of a Clipped Mare | |
1948 Summer | 69 | London | Art Competitions | Great Britain | Final Standings | AC | hors concours | Study of Figures at Races | |
1948 Summer | 69 | London | Art Competitions | Great Britain | Final Standings | AC | hors concours | Study of Hunter Cherry Bounce | |
1948 Summer | 69 | London | Art Competitions | Great Britain | Final Standings | AC | hors concours | Study of Charoux | |
1948 Summer | 69 | London | Art Competitions | Great Britain | Final Standings | AC | hors concours | Study of Start | |
1948 Summer | 69 | London | Art Competitions | Great Britain | Final Standings | AC | hors concours | Newmarket | |
1948 Summer | 69 | London | Art Competitions | Great Britain | Final Standings | AC | hors concours | Study of a Horse | |
1948 Summer | 69 | London | Art Competitions | Great Britain | Final Standings | AC | hors concours | Study for a Start | |
1948 Summer | 69 | London | Art Competitions | Great Britain | Final Standings | AC | hors concours | Study for Winter Meeting | |
1948 Summer | 69 | London | Art Competitions | Great Britain | Final Standings | AC | hors concours | Black Speck | |
1948 Summer | 69 | London | Art Competitions | Great Britain | Final Standings | AC | hors concours | Study of a Mare | |
1948 Summer | 69 | London | Art Competitions | Great Britain | Final Standings | AC | hors concours | Study of Steeplechasing | |
1948 Summer | 69 | London | Art Competitions | Great Britain | Final Standings | AC | hors concours | The Saddling Paddock, Cheltenham | |
1948 Summer | 69 | London | Art Competitions | Great Britain | Final Standings | AC | hors concours | H.R.H. The Princess Royal | |
1948 Summer | 69 | London | Art Competitions | Great Britain | Final Standings | AC | hors concours | Their Majesties Return from Ascot | |
1948 Summer | 69 | London | Art Competitions | Great Britain | Final Standings | AC | hors concours | The Huntsman Short with Whips | |
1948 Summer | 69 | London | Art Competitions | Great Britain | Final Standings | AC | hors concours | Going Down to the Start |