Sir Alfred J. Munnings, 1878–1959, British, Hyperion, 1937
- Title:
Hyperion
- Former Title(s):
Portrait of Lord Derby's "Hyperion"
The Earl of Derby's horse "Hyperion", Winner of the Derby and the St. Leger, 1933 [1938, Royal Academy of Arts, London, exhibition catalogue]
- Date:
- 1937
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- Support (PTG): 19 3/8 x 23 1/2 inches (49.2 x 59.7 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed, lower left: "A. J. Munnings"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- © Estate of Sir Alfred Munnings
- Accession Number:
- B2001.2.75
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B2001.2.75FR
- Subject Terms:
- animal art | bridle | brushstrokes | horse (animal)
- Access:
- Not on view
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:42312
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Hyperion was a highly successful horse bred and owned by the Earl of Derby; he was foaled in 1930, by Gainsborough out of Selene. In 1933 he was unbeaten, winning the Derby, the St. Leger, the Chester Vase, and the Prince of Wales Stakes at Ascot. From 1935 he was at Lord Derby's stud at Newmarket, where Munnings painted him in his loose-box. He sired many famous racehorses, and was an ancestor of Paul Mellon's Mill Reef. Malcolm Warner Warner, Malcolm and John Baskett. The Paul Mellon Bequest: Treasures of a Lifetime. New Haven : Yale Center for British Art, 2001, p. 100
Malcolm Warner, The Paul Mellon Bequest : treasures of a lifetime, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, p. 100, N5247 M385 P28 2001 (YCBA)
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