SIR ALFRED JAMES MUNNINGS, P.R.A., R.W.S., P.R. | WINTER LANDSCAPE

Private collection, UK;

Bonhams, London, 2 December 2003, lot 24

The present picture depicts one of the artist’s favourite landscapes - the riverbanks and floodplains of East Anglia that he had known since infancy. It likely depicts the environs around Mendham, where the River Waveney and its tributary the River Dove were a favoured subject, painted in every season. Commenting in his memoirs: 'My native village of Mendham on the River Waveney, which divides Norfolk from Suffolk, and which was to be my painting ground for six years after leaving the artist’s room in Norwich [Art School]…our familiar view from the mills since childhood had been across the meadows to the village' (Sir Alfred James Munnings, An Artist’s Life, London, 1951, p.77).