British & European Art: Victorian, Pre-Raphaelite & British Impressionist Art

11 July 2019

Christie’s London

 

Sir Alfred James Munnings
Ned Osborne on ‘Grey Tick’, Zennor Hill, Cornwall
Oil on canvas
25 x 30 in.
Signed ‘A.J. MUNNINGS’ (lower left)

Provenance
with G. Blair Laing, Toronto, 1958, where purchased by the grandfather of the present owners.

Exhibition History
London, Alpine Gallery, Pictures of the Belvoir Hunt and Other Scenes of English Country Life by Alfred J. Munnings, R.A., 1921, no. 40, as Zennor Hill, Cornwall.

Literature
The Field, 21 April 1921, p. 625, as Zennor Hill, Cornwall.

 

Sir Alfred James Munnings
The Green Waggon
Oil on canvas
25 x 31 in.

Signed ‘A.J. MUNNINGS’ (lower left) and further signed and inscribed ‘”The Green Waggon”/Alfred. J. Munnings,/Castle House,/Dedham E.’ (on a “War Service” economy label attached to the stretcher)

Provenance
with G. Blair Laing, Toronto, 1958, where purchased by the present owner.

Exhibition History
London, Royal Academy, 1921, no. 554.
Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, Autumn Exhibition, 1921, no. 937.

Literature
Royal Academy Illustrated, London, 1921, p. 100, illustrated.
The Children’s Newspaper, 21 May 1921, p. 3.
Sir A.J. Munnings, The Second