Lot Essay
Munnings' painting, Saddling Up for The Grand National (Collection of the Late Paul Mellon, Virginia), was exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 1928, catalogue number 92, and is illustrated in L. Lindsay, A.J. Munnings, R.A. Pictures of Horses and English Life, London, 1939, p.59, no.25. When the oil was exhibited in the loan collection of pictures at the Norwich Castle Museum in the summer of 1928, the artist titled the painting 'Saddling Up for The Grand National, 1919: Before The Snowstorm'.