PAUL SANDBY MUNN (1773-1845) Paul Sandby Munn was born in Greenwich, the son of a carriage decorator and landscape painter. His earliest works reveal the influence of JWM Turner, one of the greatest British watercolour artists of the period. He may have sketched at Dr Monro’s informal ‘academy’, copying the work of well known artists alongside such gifted contemporaries as Thomas Girtin and J M W Turner. He certainly made some drawings with the Sketching Society or ‘Brothers’, of whom Girtin was a prominent member. He was also influenced by his friend John Sell Cotman, and painted with him in Wales (1802) and Yorkshire (1803). Munn exhibited at the Royal Academy, from 1799 until 1805, when he was elected one of the first associates of the Society of Painters in Water-Colours. Ceasing to exhibit after 1815, he had largely given up painting for music by the early 1830s. However, continental travels to Switzerland (1835) and Northern France (1836) seem to have rekindled his artistic interests. His work is represented in numerous public collections, including the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cartwright Hall (Bradford), Leeds City Art Gallery and Newport Art Gallery. SEE MY WATERCOLOUR FOR SALE ON EBAY,item seller siscorner!!!!!! LOW START PRICE £499 should be worth £1500 plus