Jean-Louis Forain (1852 – 1931) – French artist

 

Jean-Louis Forain was a French artist, who specialized in painting, print making, and illustration. He was born in Reims in France on 23rd October 1852 and moved to Paris with his family when he was eight years old. 

During the First World War, Forain's illustrations honoured the patriotism of his contemporaries, and he enlisted in the Section de Camouflage under Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scévola.  He was also a war correspondent. A number of his caricatures published in the popular press at the time became posters and postcards.

Untitled caricature by Jean-Louis Forain

In his later years, Forain created numerous scenes of the Law Courts and other Parisian institutions and social satire caricatures of late 19th and early 20th century French life.

In 1931, shortly before his death on 11th July, Forain was made a member of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. He was one of France's most famous and revered artists during his time. He was, perhaps, most highly respected for his numerous drawings which chronicled and commented on Parisian city life at the end of the 19th century. Followers and admirers of Forain's work included Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

Sources:  Artists of the First World War Facebook Page

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Louis_Forain

Gilbert Spencer RA (1892 - 1979) - British artist who served in Salonika during WW1

Gilbert Spencer (4th August 1892 – 14th January 1979) was a British artist who painted landscapes, portraits, figure compositions and mural decorations working in oils and watercolour. 

He was the younger brother of the artist Stanley Spencer. During the First World War, after somewhat pacifist misgivings on the part of both themselves and their mother, both Stanley and Gilbert served in the Royal Army Medical Corps, initially at the Beaufort War Hospital in Bristol. Gilbert was then drafted to the Macedonian front, serving in Salonika and in the Eastern Mediterranean 1915–19. He returned to his studies at The Slade after the war (1919–20).

(Sir Stanley Spencer, CBE RA (30 June 1891 – 14 December 1959) also served in Salonika during WW1. 

To mark of the launch of the remarkable new Gilbert Spencer Online Catalogue (details below) - Liss Llewellyn is delighted to announce a selling exhibition of some of his finest works.

The Gilbert Spencer Online Catalogue has been directed by Professor Paul Gough, with content by Dr Amy Lim and website design and build by Rich Tarr. It has been generously funded by a grant from the Research and Knowledge Exchange Committee at Arts University Bournemouth.

For further information, please contact Eva@lissllewellyn.com

https://gilbertspencercatalogue.org/