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Maurice Codner was a near neighbour, fellow artist and great friend of Alfred Munnings. They had met in 1919, the same year that Munnings acquired Castle House. Both enjoyed days out in the countryside and going on painting expeditions together. Munnings recalls Codner's reaction to witnessing an artist working one day when they were out riding together:

'I have told how, after wasting days on horseback, we were riding down a lane near Thorrington Street, of his [Codner's] cry of anguish and misery at seeing an artist sitting peacefully at work in a meadow as we passed: "Alfred let's finish with all this silly riding about... I am going to start work tomorrow." The next day we began.'

The Munnings Art Museum

Colchester

Title

Sir Alfred Munnings Seated

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 111.8 x W 81.3 cm

Accession number

Misc4

Acquisition method

acquired by Sir Alfred Munnings

Work type

Painting

The Munnings Art Museum

Castle House, Dedham, Colchester, Essex CO7 6AZ England

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Artist or maker

Maurice Frederick Codner

1888–1958

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