Cattle on Market Hill

Details

Sir Alfred James Munnings, P.R.A., R.W.S. (1878-1959)
Cattle on Market Hill
signed 'A.J. MUNNINGS' (lower right)
pencil, watercolour and bodycolour
8¾ x 11¾ in. (22.2 x 29.8 cm.)

Provenance

Charles A. Bunting, and by descent to his son, Dr Charles F. Bunting.

Exhibited

Norwich, Castle Museum, Loan Collection of Pictures by A.J. Munnings, R.A., August-September 1928, no. 159.

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Lot Essay

The subject is probably the Cattle Market on Norwich Hill. Munnings recalled that during his years as an apprentice lithographer in Norwich in the 1890s he would roam the city and its environons on a bicycle in search of subjects to paint. 'As I grew older and rode more up-to-date bicyles I discovered new places. Often, with water-colours or oils, I used to sit and paint by the riverside below King Street, or in the Close, at the horse sales, Cattle Market or in inn yards' (An Artist's Life, Bungay, 1950, p. 53).

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