Born in London, Barraud, who was baptized at St. Mary’s Church, Lambeth on May 16th, was the brother of William.
Tag: sporting art
George Stubbs was the greatest of English horse painter, a master whose work stands alone, and who has had a greater influence on sporting painting throughout the world than anyone else who has lived.
With Stubbs, Munnings is one of the two great masters of sporting art and much has been written about him.
Sporting artist Alfred Munnings loved horses, the English countryside and a good stiff drink. What he didn’t like was modern art.
In the different world of the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the wealthy had far more time to follow their pleasurable pursuits, not the least of which was hunting. Hunting men have always been, by the very nature of their sport, men of courage and character.