Paul Sandby Munn OWS

1773 - 1845

Paul Sandby Munn, born in Greenwich, was the son of James Munn, a carriage decorator and an occasional exhibitor at the Society of Painters in Water-Colours. Munn was named after his godfather, Paul Sandby, who gave him his first instructions in watercolour painting. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1798, sending some views in the Isle of Wight, and was subsequently a frequent contributor of topographical drawings to that and other exhibitions. He was elected to the Society in 1806. Munn was a friend of John Sell Cotman, and they made several sketching tours together at home and abroad. He drew some of the views in Britton's Beauties of England and Wales. Munn's drawings are delicately and carefully executed, usually in subtle, muted colouring. Munn painted little after 1832, when he devoted himself chiefly to music.

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