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Study from the Antique: Horse Of Selene, NUA Collection

Alfred Munnings, Study from the Antique, 1898. NUA Collection after the Horse of Selene from the East Pediment of the Parthenon, Acropolis c.435 BC.

Revealing Munnings celebrates the recent conservation of a collection of 14 drawings by Sir Alfred Munnings (1878- 1959) owned by Norwich University of the Arts.

Between 1893 and 1897 Munnings attended evening classes at Norwich School of Art, as it then was, while at the same time working long hours as a commercial artist for Page Brothers, Norwich. At this time, he was developing as an artist and in particular discovering an interest in oil painting and in a wider range of subject matter than that preferred by the commercial advertising trade. ...

1898
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