Tag: artist
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Lt Eric Henri Kennington in the Great War
Lt Eric Henri Kennington produced 170 charcoal, pastel and watercolours before returning to London in March 1918. Kennington served in the British army from 1914 to 1915 when invalided out. He went back to France in 1917 as an Official War Artist and concentrated on depicting the common soldier – true to his belief in…
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Alfred Théodore Joseph Bastien in the Great War
Hon Lt Lt Alfred Théodore Joseph Bastien born 1873 in Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium. While serving in the CEF with Canadian War Memorials Fund, employed as a war artist (at his own expense), and at one time attached to the 22nd Battalion (Royal 22e Régiment), painting several snipers of the “Van Doos” on the battlefield. Alfred Théodore…
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Lieutenant A Y Jackson in the Great War
Group of Seven In 1915, after the outbreak of the Great War, Private Alexander Young Jackson 457316 enlisted in the 60th Battalion, CEF and sent to Europe. Wounded in the Battle of Sanctuary Wood in June of 1916. While recovering in the hospital in Étaples in northern France, he met Lord Beaverbrook. Soon he was appointed an artist…
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Major William Orpen in the Great War
Major William Orpen (later Sir William Orpen 1878-1931) born in County Dublin and trained as an artist at the Slade School. Orpen elected ARA in 1910. When War commenced in 1914, Orpen raised funds for the War Effort by auctioning blank canvases on which the purchaser’s portrait would be painted. In 1915, commissioned into the…
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Private Reuben Alvin Jukes in the Great War
Private Reuben Alvin Jucksch (Jukes) born on 5 July 1887 to Ernst August Jucksch and Maria Kalbfleisch of Hanover, Ontario. ‘Jukes’ not an official war artist, but family tradition holds that his commanding officer turned a blind eye when Jukes painted the scenes that confronted him whilst on active service. The same tradition says that…
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Mary Riter Hamilton in the Great War
Mary Riter Hamilton produced the largest known collection of Great War art, yet she is still virtually unknown today. “I came out because I felt I must come, and if I did not come at once it would be too late.” Mary Riter Hamilton in 1922 The Canadian artist had just completed a two-and-a-half-year solo…
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Sapper William Redver Stark in the Great War
Graphic Artist 1st Battalion, Canadian Railway Troops Sapper William Redver Stark born 4 February 1885 in Toronto to William Mackenzie Stark (1843-1922) and Ethel Copps (1854-1921). Prior to the Great War, studied art at the Ontario College of Art in Toronto and at the Philadelphia School of Fine Arts. William subsequently served with the Canadian…