Paul Mellon on Dublin

1. Fine Hand-Numbered Print on Paper

Image size: 16 x 20 inches (41 x 51 cm) Paper size: 20 x 24 inches (51 x 61 cm)

Each print on paper is hand-numbered and supplied with its own numbered Certificate signed by the Master Printer. The Edition is unlimited.

2. Print on Canvas

Image size: 16 x 20 inches (41 x 51 cm)

The unframed canvas has a 2 inch (5 cm) white margin all round

Paul Mellon (1907-1999) was an American philanthropist and avid thoroughbred horse breeder and sportsman. He is one of only five people ever designated an "Exemplar of Racing" by the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame. He was co-heir to one of America's greatest business fortunes, The Mellon Bank.

His most important legacy was his love of art and his art collections. Shortly before his father Andrew Mellon's death in 1937, construction began on the West Wing of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., for which Andrew Mellon had provided funds. Four years later Paul Mellon presented both the building by John Russell Pope and his father's collection of 115 paintings to the nation. He served on the museum's board for more than four decades. Over the years he and his wife Bunny donated more than 1,000 works to the National Gallery, among them many French and American masterworks.

In 1936 Paul Mellon purchased his first British painting, "Pumpkin with a Stable-lad" by George Stubbs, who became a lifetime favourite of Mellon's. Beginning in the late 1950s Mellon amassed a major collection and was only natural that Paul Mellon would request his portrait to be created by Munnings, the finest sporting artist of his time.