Which animal features prominently in paintings by Alfred Munnings?
"the museum, and features changing exhibits of art relating to sports, including hunting, shooting, fishing, boxing, archery, rowing and horse racing. The British Sporting Art Trust, a registered charity, hosts a large collection of important pieces of British sporting art at Palace House. In the remaining part of Charles II’s racing palace is the Fred Packard Museum and Galleries of British Sporting Art and a new home for the British Sporting Art Trust. Paintings by George Stubbs and Sir Alfred Munnings rub shoulders with works from John Singer Sargent and John Wootton, showcasing some of the finest examples of British"
"St Andrew's Church; and a stone tablet in Cambrai Cathedral. Alfred Munnings was a painter specialising in horses. He volunteered for military service at the outbreak of war but was deemed unfit due to lack of sight in one eye. He volunteered to tend to army horses and was later recruited as a civilian war artist attached to Canadian cavalry. In 1919, he was beginning to move into sculpture. The Horner memorial was his first public work of sculpture, for which Lutyens commissioned him based on a pre-existing friendship. The work led to several further commissions for equine statues, including"
"species. Isidore Bonheur achieved this most successfully with his sculptures of horses, usually depicted as relaxed rather than spirited, and which are among his most renowned works. Sir Alfred Munnings was an acclaimed painter working in England during the 20th century, he was elected president of the Royal Academy in 1944. He specialised in equine subjects, including horse racing, portraiture and studies of gypsies and rural life. Military art often depicts the horse in battle and provides some of the earliest examples of the horse in art, with cavalry, horse-drawn chariots and horse archers all appearing on ancient artifacts. In"
"and tuna, to freshwater fish such as trout and carp. Birds such as partridges, pheasants and ducks, and mammals such as deer and wild boar, are among the terrestrial game animals most often hunted for sport and for food. Animals, often mammals but including fish and insects among other groups, have been the subjects of art from the earliest times, both historical, as in Ancient Egypt, and prehistoric, as in the cave paintings at Lascaux and other sites in the Dordogne, France and elsewhere. Major animal paintings include Albrecht Dürer's 1515 ""The Rhinoceros"", and George Stubbs's c. 1762 horse portrait"
"Jennings Dog The Jennings Dog (also known as The Duncombe Dog or The Dog of Alcibiades) is a Roman sculpture of a dog with a docked tail. Named for its first modern owner, Henry Constantine Jennings, it is a 2nd-century AD Roman copy of a Hellenistic bronze original. The original was probably of the 2nd century BC. It is high; its leonine muzzle and one leg have been repaired since its rediscovery. Though it is one of only a few animal sculptures surviving from antiquity, a pair of similar marble mastiffs of the same model can be seen in the"
"purchase the portraits. In November 2013 it was announced that a £1.5million donation from the Eyal Ofer Family Foundation will enable the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London to acquire the two paintings. Portrait of a Large Dog Portrait of a Large Dog is an oil painting by George Stubbs. Depicting a dingo (""Canis lupus dingo""), it is the first depiction of an Australian animal in Western art, along with a painting of a kangaroo by Stubbs. It is part of the collection of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London. The work was commissioned by Joseph Banks based on"
"Alfred Munnings, Millais was an opponent of Modernism in art, which he called ""the Picasso lark"". He died in 1999 in his 99th year in Oxfordshire, England He married Elinor Claire (d. 1953), daughter of late Allan Ronald Macdonell, of Montreal, and had two sons, John and Hugh. He married secondly Kay Prior Palmer with whom he had a third son, Hesketh Merlin. Raoul Millais Hesketh Raoul Lejarderay Millais (1901–1999), usually known as Raoul or 'Liony' Millais was a portrait painter, equestrian artist and sportsman. He was the grandson of Sir John Everett Millais and the son of John Guille"
"Portrait of a Large Dog Portrait of a Large Dog is an oil painting by George Stubbs. Depicting a dingo (""Canis lupus dingo""), it is the first depiction of an Australian animal in Western art, along with a painting of a kangaroo by Stubbs. It is part of the collection of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London. The work was commissioned by Joseph Banks based on his observations of dingoes on the east coast of Australia in 1770 during Lieutenant James Cook's first voyage of discovery. No specimen was collected for use as a subject, unlike its companion painting"
"of the German and Allied offensives in the Amiens area in 1918. Alfred Munnings, who was then a largely unknown war artist, created an oil painting ""Charge of Flowerdew's Squadron"" which depicts this cavalry charge. The canvas was formerly at the Imperial War Museum in London; it is now in the collection of the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa. He is buried at Namps-au-Val Cemetery in France located 11 miles south-east of Amiens (plot I, row H. grave 1). His posthumously awarded Victoria Cross was donated by his mother to Framlingham College in England. It had been on loan to,"
"paintings by Munnings since the original bequest. The display in the Museum varies over time as paintings are both loaned to the trust and lent to other exhibitions. The studios where some of Munnings' most famous works were painted are preserved and open to the public. Castle House, Dedham Castle House, Dedham, Essex was the home of Sir Alfred Munnings from 1919 till his death in 1959. Architecturally the contains a mixture of Tudor and Georgian elements. Shortly after his death his widow established The Violet Munnings Trust Fund in 1962 to establish and run an Art Museum in Castle"
"of Canada, Ottawa) from sketches made on Vimy Ridge. For the British he painted one of his best known works, ""A Battery Shelled"" (1919, Imperial War Museum)(see ), drawing on his own experience in charge of a 6-inch howitzer at Ypres. Lewis exhibited his war drawings and some other paintings of the war in an exhibition, ""Guns"", in 1918. An unlikely war artist was Sir Alfred Munnings, who is best known as a painter of purebred racehorses; but he turned his painter's skills to the task of capturing images of the Canadian Cavalry Brigade in the war. His mounted portrait"
"Henry Constantine Jennings Henry Constantine Jennings (August 1731 – 17 February 1819) was an antiquarian, collector and gambler, best known for the Roman sculpture - known as ""The Jennings Dog"" - which he acquired and which is now in the British Museum. He was known as ""Dog Jennings"" after it. He attended Westminster School and is buried at St Margaret's, Westminster. The only son of James Jennings, he was born at his father's estate at Shiplake in Oxfordshire. He was educated at Westminster School, and at the age of seventeen became an ensign in the 1st Foot Guards. Resigning his"
"otter (""Enhydra lutris""), bearded seal (""Erignathus barbatus""), donkey (""Equus asinus""), cougars (""Felis concolor coryi"", ""Felis concolor stanleyana""), bobcat (""Felis rufus floridanus""), Atlantic white-sided dolphins (""Lagenorhynchus acutus""), guanaco (""Lama guanicoe""), alpaca (""Vicugna pacos""), otter (""Lutra lutra""), wild dog (""Lycaon pictus""), Bartels's spiny rat (""Maxomys bartelsii""), Musschenbroek's spiny rat (""Maxomys musschenbroekii""), prairie vole (""Microtus ochrogaster""), common European weasel (""Mustela nivalis""), mink (""Mustela vison""), muskrat (""Ondatra zibethica""), mountain goats (""Oreamnos americanus""), Grant's gazelle (""Nanger granti""), slow loris (""Nycticebus coucang""), African lions (""Panthera leo""), leopard (""Panthera pardus""), tiger (""Panthera tigris""), baboon (""Papio cynocephalus""), Pacific harbor seal (""Phoca vitulina richardsi"") chamois (""Rupicapra rupicapra""), Polynesian rat"
"etchings are ""Diogenes with his lantern, Noah leading animals into Arc"", St Joseph Asleep during Flight from Egypt"", ""Circe surrounded by animals"", ""Silenus at the fountain"", ""Nativity"", ""Resurrection of Lazarus"", and ""Genius of Castiglione"". Castiglione was renowned for his ability to paint animals, mostly barn animals, and this was often a dominant motif in his paintings. For example, in the painting of ""Jesus clearing the temple of Moneylenders"", the religious event is a minor, background part of the painting, the stampede of animals is far more prominent than the scattering of bankers. Castiglione's attention to detail in the depiction of"
"in the inclusion of bloodshot eyes. The dragon is usually included as a reference to Saint Sylvester. Similarly, the pig in the bottom right is a common symbol of Saint Anthony Abbot, representing gluttony. A highly debated animal is the white dove which is depicted drinking from a steam in the very bottom of the painting. The dove is usually used to represent the Holy Spirit, however the style of this dove does not resemble any of the usual marks of the Holy Spirit. Herbert Friedmann has theorized that the dove is instead a symbol of the twin sister of"
"of Munnings' canvasses. After the war, Munnings began to establish himself as a sculptor, though he had no formal training in the discipline. His first public work was the equestrian statue of Edward Horner in Mells, Somerset, a collaboration with his friend Sir Edwin Lutyens, who designed a plinth for the statue. This work led to a commission from the Jockey Club for a sculpture of Brown Jack. Munnings was elected president of the Royal Academy of Arts in 1944. He was made a Knight Bachelor in 1944, and appointed a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in the"
"of exotic species such as cockatoos, macaws, and mynas, which were likely to have been imported to European menageries at the time. He mixed them with familiar European birds such as great and blue tits, European green woodpeckers and Eurasian jays. He would often highlight a painting with a bird of red plumage, such as a scarlet ibis, red avadavat or northern cardinal. Numerous birds were usually crowded into his landscapes; an exception was the highly regarded ""Two Icelandic Falcons"", painted around the end of the 17th century or early 18th. Currently housed in Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery,"
"as having a wide, short muzzle and a heavy dewlap (similar to modern Mastiff breeds), the Molossus was used to fight tigers, lions, elephants, and men in battle. A Roman copy of a sculpture of a guard dog (known as the Jennings Dog) on display at the British Museum, is generally considered to represent a Molossus. Others argue it was primarily a lightweight dog used for hunting and herding — with physical characteristics more akin to Greyhounds or possibly the American Pit Bull Terrier. Most scholars agree the Molossus originated with the Molossis people in the mountainous regions of ancient"
"the medieval period cavalry battles and knights on horseback were portrayed by artists including Paolo Uccello and Albrecht Dürer. Uccello's tryptic The Battle of San Romano shows various stages of a battle. Dürer's engraving of ""Knight, Death and the Devil"", 1513 shows a military subject combined with allegorical theme. Sir Alfred Munnings was appointed as a war artist during World War I, he painted both the Canadian Cavalry Brigade and the Canadian Forestry Corps stationed in France. He considered his experiences with the Canadian units to have been among the most rewarding events of his life. Elizabeth Thompson, known as"
"and David"" (2005–06) and ""Double Portrait"" (1985–86). He had a special passion for horses, having enjoyed riding at school in Dartington, where he sometimes slept in the stables. His portraits solely of horses include ""Grey Gelding"" (2003), ""Skewbald Mare"" (2004), and ""Mare Eating Hay"" (2006). Wilting houseplants feature prominently in some portraits, especially in the 1960s, and Freud also produced a number of paintings purely of plants. Other regular features included mattresses in earlier works, and huge piles of the linen rags with which he used to clean his brushes in later ones. Some portraits, especially in the 1980s, have"
"plants. In a few places, green, white, black and yellow pigments have been used. The paintings are mainly of wild animals (tortoise, fish, birds), humans, palm impressions, geometric figures, hunting scenes, war scenes, and abstract geometrical figures. Pictographs are painted on vertical wall surfaces, roofs, and rock hollow cavities. The oldest pictograph, known as animal zoo, depicts carnivorous animals—tigers, leopards, hyenas, jackals, aardvark (an ant-eater-now extinct) and wild dogs; omnivorous animals—bears; and herbivorous animals—blue bulls, spotted deer, barasingha, sambar, Indian rhinoceros (now extinct in the region), sivatherium (animal similar to giraffe, now extinct); and many unidentifiable creatures. All the animals"
"extinction in the mid-late 20th century; it has since recovered and today is not uncommon As remarked above, these are variously placed in ""T. musculus"" if that is considered distinct, or as one or several distinct species. John James Audubon illustrates the house wren in Birds of America (published, London 1827–38) as Plate 83. The image was engraved and colored by the Robert Havell, London workshops. The original watercolor by Audubon was purchased by the New York History Society. Troglodytes Aedon was one of the two pets of King Friday the XIII in Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. Trog, as the King"
"paint on, including metal, wood, cardboard, and canvas. His work is distinguishable from other artists because his animals have large, round eyes. He ""uses a vibrant palette and paints in an energetic, strong style..."" John Cornbread Anderson John ""Cornbread"" Anderson is an American Folk Artist from rural Lumpkin, GA. He is known for his paintings of animals, particularly the guinea fowl, with large eyes. Anderson grew up in the woods of the Mill Creek Community in Lumpkin, GA. He has held a variety of jobs including being a butcher, a mechanic, a police officer, and manager of a farm. Both"
"are often treated in the same way, often mixed in with animals in decorative schemes - archers were especially popular in the Romanesque period. The early Anglo-Saxon ship burial found in contemporary Great Britain at Sutton Hoo, from the seventh century AD, contains famous examples of Migration Period art. The Sutton Hoo purse-lid has three stylized confronted-animal pairs; the two side pairs, left and right, are identical, and have the animals in the person's clutched grasp. The central confronted animals are even more complex in theme. Opposed animals are used in Insular art, the style of which is derived from"
"Alfred Munnings, and at Borough Road Training College, Isleworth, West London. Horace Tuck also illustrated books on local subjects, including ""Inns and Taverns of Old Norwich"". His wife, Elizabeth Mary, known as Bessie, was originally one of his pupils and an artist in her own right. They were married in 1910 and lived in Branksome Road, Norwich, until Tuck retired in 1939. They then moved to Sheringham, on the Norfolk coast, where Tuck continued to paint until his death aged 75. His widow Bessie died in 1965, and there are memorials to her and to her husband at St Faiths"
"subjects are depictions of animals, some of which may symbolise a human vice or virtue, or an aspect of faith. Twenty-seven of the carvings depict animals: rabbits, dogs, a puppy biting a cat, a ewe feeding a lamb, monkeys, lions, bats, and the Early Christian motif of two doves drinking from a ewer. Eighteen of the misericords have mythological subjects, including mermaids, dragons and wyverns. Five of the carvings are clearly narrative, such as the Fox and the Geese, and the story of Alexander the Great being raised to Heaven by griffins. There are three heads: a bishop in a"
"in Ancient Egypt, and prehistory, as in the cave paintings at Lascaux and other sites in the Dordogne, France and elsewhere. Major artistic depictions of animals include Albrecht Dürer's 1515 ""The Rhinoceros"", and George Stubbs's c. 1762 horse portrait ""Whistlejacket"". Plants appear in art, either to illustrate their botanical appearance, or for the purposes of the artist, which may include decoration or religious symbolism. For example, the Virgin Mary was compared by the Venerable Bede to a lily, the white petals denoting purity of body, while the yellow anthers signified the radiant light of the soul; accordingly, European portraits of"
"hailed ""one of the most important collections of its kind"". Carnegie Museum of Natural History Pittsburgh has a collection of 1,364 of his Asian fishes. Some other animals named after him include the fish ""Trismegistus owstoni"", a clam, a frog, and woodpecker. His bird collection was also hailed for ""the prodigious number of bird specimens"". His collections can be found in many museums today, notably the Smithsonian collection of his reptiles, birds and fish. He is also noted for his deep-sea sponge collection at the Natural History Museum, London which also has a charming Victorian photographic portrait of him from"
"by ""damnatio ad bestias"". In what appears to be a unique feature of Orpheus mosaics from Roman Britain, the animals may be arranged parading in a circle around him, feet facing out, so that some are the right way up whatever angle the floor is seen from; nine examples are known. The subject is found, for example, in Woodchester in England, the second largest of its kind in Europe and one of the most intricate. It dates to c. AD 325 and was re-discovered by Gloucestershire-born antiquarian Samuel Lysons in 1793. It has been uncovered seven times since 1880, the"
"and sculpture throughout the 20th century. For a large and complex 20th century war painting in which a horse is the central dramatic figure, see Guernica by Pablo Picasso. While Impressionist painter Edgar Degas was particularly famous for his paintings of dancers, Degas was also known for his paintings of horses and horse racing. Hunting scenes have been a common subject matter for equestrian painters. Specialists in fox hunting subjects include Cecil Aldin and Lionel Edwards. Lucy Kemp-Welch was well known for her depiction of wild and working horses in the landscape. Horses in art Horses have appeared in works"
"as one of England's finest painters of horses, and as an outspoken enemy of Modernism. An extract of one of his paintings, featuring gypsy Charlotte Gray leading a pony, has been incorporated into the Mendham village sign. Her husband Frederick or 'Nobby' Gray was one of Alfred's closest friends and a model in some of his paintings. Both Nobby and Charlotte are buried in All Saints churchyard in Mendham. Mendham, Suffolk Mendham is a village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located on the east bank of the River Waveney around a mile"
"large Newfoundland dog. In the background are trees and water. The Gainsborough portrait has been at auction several times in the past 25 years: it made £1.2m in 1987, and then £2.65m in 2002, both times setting a world record for Gainsborough. Before the 1987 sale it had been in the same British collection for 90 years - for a long time it was on loan to the government, and hung at 10 Downing St for two years. John Bullock (1731–1809) Colonel John Bullock of Faulkbourne M.P. (31 December 1731 – 28 December 1809) was an English landowner and Member"
"case of other cats. The cheetah has been widely portrayed in a variety of artistic works. In ""Bacchus and Ariadne"", an oil painting by the 16th-century Italian painter Titian, the chariot of the Greek god Dionysus (Bacchus) is depicted as being drawn by two cheetahs. The cheetahs in the painting were previously considered to be leopards. In 1764 English painter George Stubbs commemorated the gifting of a cheetah to George III by the English Governor of Madras, Sir George Pigot in his painting ""Cheetah with Two Indian Attendants and a Stag"". The painting depicts a cheetah, hooded and collared by"