Huntsman and Hounds was painted in 1906, when Munnings was 28, and depicts a huntsman surrounded by his scampering, eager dogs as they travel down a path in the Norfolk countryside. At the time, Munnings was living and working in Swainsthorpe, five miles south of Norwich, where he had persuaded his aunt Polly Hills to rent part of her home, Church Farm, for the princely sum of £10 per annum. Munnings built a studio in the grounds and acquired a small band of ponies, horses and donkeys to serve as models for his works. A Huntsman and his Hounds is one of only a handful of known works depicting the horse and rider ‘head on’ in Munnings oeuvre.