Sir Alfred Munnings
Davy Jones With The Hon. Anthony Mildmay Up, 1937
Oil on canvas
91.5 x 111.5 cm.; 36 x 45¼ in.
Signed lower left: 'A J Munnings'
WB3607
Copyright The Artist
Provenance
Commissioned by Francis Bingham Mildmay, 1st Baron Mildmay of Flete (1861-1947), in 1937
Thence by descent
Christie’s, New York, 1 December 1999, lot 162
Private collection
Exhibitions
London, Royal Academy, 1938, no. 59, illustrated
Literature
L. Lindsay, Portraits of Horses and English Life, 1939, p.147, no.76, illus.
A.J. Munnings, The Second Burst, 1951, pp.151-2, illus.
R. Mortimer, Anthony Mildmay, 1956, illustrated as colour frontispiece
J. Fairly, Great Racehorses in Art, 1984, pp.175-7, illus.
