“Major T Bouch and the Belvoir Hounds”

Description

Major T Bouch and the Belvoir Hounds

Superior Edition Gouttelette Print

by Sir Alfred Munnings

Paper Size: 24 x 20 ins 60 x 50 cm

Image Size: 20 x 16 ins 50 x 40 cm

Each print is hand numbered, accompanied by a certificate signed by the Master Printer and is numbered to match the print. The editions are limited to 1880 copies.

Early in the 1920s, Munnings was invited by the Master of the Belvoir Hounds, Major Tommy Bouch, to stay with him at Woolsthorpe, his family home, where he was to work on a series of paintings of the Belvoir Hounds. Munnings’s autobiography records the weeks of hunting and partying at Woolsthorpe with enormous pleasure and this painting of the Master, in his boots with the distinctive flesh-coloured tops, was the culmination of his stay. Major Bouch posed for the picture on a saddle-horse against the huge north window on the Woolsthorpe staircase, which provided Munnings with perfect light. The real horse, named Kiltie, was painted in later and Munnings chose him as a suitable subject because he had a mane, rather than the disfiguring hog-mane which was the fashion at the time.

Watermark does not appear on actual Print