‘It’s marvellous Mr Munnings!’
Nov 04, 2021
4 minutes
“THESE riding women imagine they look entirely different to what they are,” wrote the equestrian artist Sir Alfred Munnings to his second wife Violet McBride in 1921.
It was a seemingly arduous commission to paint the Duchess of Westminster at her country house Eaton Hall that prompted the outburst, revealed in a published collection of letters from 100 years ago, entitled Yours with Love, AJ.
“Very sick of this job... Thank heavens the D [Duchess] is going off tomorrow. She is anxious over the picture – first she want the mane blowing & then laid down – & she
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