Sir Alfred J. Munnings, P.R.A. (British, 1878-1959)

A Trooper in Full Marching Order

Details

Sir Alfred J. Munnings, P.R.A. (British, 1878-1959)
A Trooper in Full Marching Order
signed 'A.J.Munnings' (lower right)
oil on canvas
20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 60 cm.)

Provenance

A. H. Heath (by 1928)
with Thomas Agnew & Sons, New York
with Frost and Reed, Ltd., London

Literature

The Studio, "The International Society," July, 1919, p. 174
The International Studio, Vol. 28, January, 1931, p. 72, illustrated

Exhibited

London, Royal Academy, Canadian War Memorial Exhibition, 1919, no. 152 as Strathcona Trooper--Marching Order
London, The Grosvenor Gallery, International Society of Sculptors, Painters, and Gravers, June, 1919
Norwich, Castle Museum, Munnings Exhibition, 1928, no. 126
New York, Thomas Agnew & Sons, Contemporary British Artists, November-December, 1930, no. 23

Lot Essay

In 1919, Munnings received great critical acclaim for his works at the Royal Academy and the International Society. "Mr. A. J. Munnings showed his usual crisp and vigorous brushwork in all five of his pictures. Perhaps the best of them was A Trooper in Full Marching Order, interesting as revealing the heavy load of paraphernalia borne by a cavalry horse on active service, and attractive by reason of its intelligent appreciation of the points of a good charger, expressed in artistic term." (ibid., p. 174)

This is one of a number of pictures which the artist painted during the First World War of the Canadian Cavalry and Forestry in France. Most of these paintings are in the collection of the Canadian War Museum, Ottawa.