tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11179490301176959172024-03-08T05:04:17.829-08:00Lesser Known Artists Of World War OneLucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13956422195610297062noreply@blogger.comBlogger112125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1117949030117695917.post-77148520000137157222024-03-08T05:03:00.000-08:002024-03-08T05:03:31.180-08:00Ludovic-Rodolphe Pissarro known as Ludovic Rodo (1878-1952) - French artist <p> </p><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw433iYlvyBEf3YM-O8FjXihYiHjTPKA2CTTuLj6zDFkB8jjGcR2arDryP1NdPlQRXJwVgdootvilNvvZ2l2rS6wpqsdhLNGBP7rk8_NeWCl7af6V8zAg-X4K36k_Qw-xgHaJ-VEnNv83_FUMhKYEN_uWGoPKu4IGPdhVQETUj1C3NSSj_VS7KybfK-f4/s260/Portrait%20of%20Rodo%20Pissarro%20%20c%201900%20by%20Camille%20Pisarro.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="190" data-original-width="260" height="190" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw433iYlvyBEf3YM-O8FjXihYiHjTPKA2CTTuLj6zDFkB8jjGcR2arDryP1NdPlQRXJwVgdootvilNvvZ2l2rS6wpqsdhLNGBP7rk8_NeWCl7af6V8zAg-X4K36k_Qw-xgHaJ-VEnNv83_FUMhKYEN_uWGoPKu4IGPdhVQETUj1C3NSSj_VS7KybfK-f4/s1600/Portrait%20of%20Rodo%20Pissarro%20%20c%201900%20by%20Camille%20Pisarro.jpg" width="260" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Portrait of Ludovic by his Father<br />c. 1900</td></tr></tbody></table><br />Born in 1878, Ludovic was the fifth child born to the artist Camille Pisarro (1830 – 1903) and his wife, Julie, nee Vellay (1839 – 1926). </div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;">Known by the name of Ludovic Rodo and often signing his work LR, Ludovic lived and worked in London during the First World War.</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1156" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE5Wrkcrd3GrG2H4LqcNVjC8DDO3nh4gHzmGaHOQf29YJgf53F3WZU46s_IsJHmrVInCiKnWaxJ985vkysRcTszkRyfyB7m_X9aZK9gGWxirB-LeqdbSWyHfwRV0buPPvLtH5iRQ5MPoJCyT-Fz3uCEKrCrxOy34kYZWk42H6pr9ur_YOIX8p662Q_PiQ/s320/Land%20Army%20Poster%20WW1%20by%20WW1%20poster%20by%20Ludovic-Rodolphe%20Pissarro%20known%20as%20Ludovic%20Rodo%20or%20LR.jpg" width="166" /></a></div><br /><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;">2 WW1 posters by French artist Ludovic-Rodolphe Pissarro known as Ludovic Rodo (1878-1952) </div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;">Original Source: <span style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;"><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x1ejq31n xd10rxx x1sy0etr x17r0tee x972fbf xcfux6l x1qhh985 xm0m39n x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv x1fey0fg" href="https://lissllewellyn.com/online-exhibitions/women-at-war/?fbclid=IwAR15AgQRS-ztguzzat3OOS9cSdeyIKrKJ4hNdw9gobvSujNmKBjNMTeejqk" rel="nofollow noreferrer" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; animation-name: none !important; background-color: transparent; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition-property: none !important;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">https://lissllewellyn.com/online-exhibitions/women-at-war/</a></span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;">Biography: <span style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;"><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x1ejq31n xd10rxx x1sy0etr x17r0tee x972fbf xcfux6l x1qhh985 xm0m39n x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv x1fey0fg" href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludovic-Rodo_Pissarro?fbclid=IwAR11Uhjl7H8QJSELX5TVHqQc27M7D1bUJygipHW-KBw6Eb4EA9IzFeDA3BY" rel="nofollow noreferrer" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; animation-name: none !important; background-color: transparent; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition-property: none !important;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludovic-Rodo_Pissarro</a></span></div>Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13956422195610297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1117949030117695917.post-22472969311786235412023-11-03T07:21:00.000-07:002023-11-03T07:21:03.405-07:00 Henry Buckle (1882 - 1964) – British artist, illustrator and photographer<p>Henry Charles H. Buckle was born in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, UK on 19th January 1882. His parents were John Buckle, a Verger, and his wife, Susan, nee Hill.</p><p>Henry trained as a Whitesmith. In 1907, he married Emily Hannah Rollings.</p><p>During the First World War, Henry served as 2746 Lance-Corporal Henry Buckle, in the 1/5th (Territorial) Battalion, The Gloucestershire Regiment from March to October 1915 in Belgium and France. Henry was under enemy fire and the trench he was in collapsed on him, his legs were badly injured and he was discharged from active duty in August 1916.</p><p>The 1921 Census shows Henry, his wife and their daughter Alice Florence Buckle, who was born in 1908, living in Harrogate, Yorkshire (West Riding). By 1939, the family were still living in Harrogate and by then Henry was a photographer with Alice helping him as a photograhic retoucher.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW3WH1_aKqsWB0egNpiHbttXCT40coHH2vUNlPhg4mz8GXRjqFdsM3qhW2mvL9P74EKyLaBgYw8wk5eEd1D8EHbfClianaTxzWCzq0DKZJ1M6jnQK3P5XpxZvKQ1tsLwUHznIaxbF0pO6Id8SnuNDW1rQ85t_9RZY-LNoul3HlRaybGeaO_O4LJWIHySI/s452/A%20Tommy's%20Sketchbook%20by%20Lance%20Corporal%20Harry%20Buckle.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="452" data-original-width="400" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW3WH1_aKqsWB0egNpiHbttXCT40coHH2vUNlPhg4mz8GXRjqFdsM3qhW2mvL9P74EKyLaBgYw8wk5eEd1D8EHbfClianaTxzWCzq0DKZJ1M6jnQK3P5XpxZvKQ1tsLwUHznIaxbF0pO6Id8SnuNDW1rQ85t_9RZY-LNoul3HlRaybGeaO_O4LJWIHySI/s320/A%20Tommy's%20Sketchbook%20by%20Lance%20Corporal%20Harry%20Buckle.jpg" width="283" /></a></div><p>“A Tommy's Sketchbook: Writings and Drawings From the Trenches”. Incorporating the First World War Diary of 2746 Lance-Corporal Henry Buckle, 1/5th (Territorial) Battalion, The Gloucestershire Regiment. Foreword by Jack Russell, MBE, FRSA, the former international cricketer and respected artist. This book was edited by David Read, the Historian of the Gloucestershire Regimental Museums.</p><p>NOTES:</p><p>A Verger is an official in a church who acts as a caretaker and attendant.</p><p>A Whitesmith is a metalworker who does finishing work on iron and steel such as filing, lathing, burnishing or polishing. The term also refers to a person who works with "white" or light-coloured metals, and is sometimes used as a synonym for tinsmith.</p><p>Sources: Find my Past, FreeBMD and</p><p>https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/browse/http%3A-_--_-data.open.ac.uk-_-led-_-source-_-Diary%2Bof%2BLance-Corporal%2BHenry%2BBuckle%2C%2B20%2BApril%2B1915-_-1399974736801</p><p>http://the1926foundation.org/mbdb/books/6992</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13956422195610297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1117949030117695917.post-78335535280286765672023-10-27T10:21:00.001-07:002023-10-27T10:21:31.358-07:00Fergus Herbert Elgin Mackain (1886 - 1924) - Canadian artist/illustrator Sculptor & Photographer<p style="text-align: center;"><b><i> With thanks to Ciaran Conlan for find this artist for us</i></b></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9sr4wPmPCb5o6mva77i0HODsMGzyZYbU24b1Itl0MlubQNU8vXjk8wyg0h28QyWI15vnVKajpS9kH-56eYqJgFeoSJW9wHW0NIlp4qMz35LlqZyU6Jxp-dEfgSVhNOTF-uhEkl9ALvb0s7jR7pGaN3Klia5LoOnVGq_Pbat6XMuP5H9Nb0S7Gyv5KeHQ/s314/Fergus%20Mackain.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="314" data-original-width="297" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9sr4wPmPCb5o6mva77i0HODsMGzyZYbU24b1Itl0MlubQNU8vXjk8wyg0h28QyWI15vnVKajpS9kH-56eYqJgFeoSJW9wHW0NIlp4qMz35LlqZyU6Jxp-dEfgSVhNOTF-uhEkl9ALvb0s7jR7pGaN3Klia5LoOnVGq_Pbat6XMuP5H9Nb0S7Gyv5KeHQ/s1600/Fergus%20Mackain.jpg" width="297" /></a></div>Fergus Herbert Elgin Mackain was born on 28th March 1886 Saint John New Brunswick Canada, <p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;">Fergus worked his way to England at the start of the war and joined the British Army. He served initially in the Fusiliers 30th (Reserve) Battalion, British Army Army Service Corps, before transferring to the 23rd Battalion (First Sportsman's). Fergus served on the Western Front and was wounded during the Battle of Delville Wood (15th July – 3rd September 1916). </span></p><p>After the war, Fergus returned to live with his family in America. He died on 3rd July 1924 in Asheville, Buncombe, North Carolina (Oteen Veterans Hospital).</p><p>A letter to his six year old son</p><p> When Fergus Mackain wrote this illustrated letter to his 6 year old son in New York, he had been in France for about one year. During that time he had been wounded at the Battle of Delville Wood, and had survived the bitterly cold winter of 1916/17, when men literally froze to death in the trenches.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi383ddQqXpzRMhQfJ84DetVBoCS5shPiKIBZ78shoE629vdW9bYbRePomMkD-HHUt2pBPNR7I2VVcDo2EUSVR1Q6IMU0WHtQuTtHxzdyIihYTDyQz-IQuYeE8DO1fjbe4xYWr_yoa7RvfpHr0HlCNwwb3w9Dwddim_8dnwovBt-AROxHl0J9pjcZOwKSc/s2000/Letter%20to%20his%20son%20by%20Fergus%20H%20E%20Mackain%20WW1%20Canadian%20artist.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1379" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi383ddQqXpzRMhQfJ84DetVBoCS5shPiKIBZ78shoE629vdW9bYbRePomMkD-HHUt2pBPNR7I2VVcDo2EUSVR1Q6IMU0WHtQuTtHxzdyIihYTDyQz-IQuYeE8DO1fjbe4xYWr_yoa7RvfpHr0HlCNwwb3w9Dwddim_8dnwovBt-AROxHl0J9pjcZOwKSc/s320/Letter%20to%20his%20son%20by%20Fergus%20H%20E%20Mackain%20WW1%20Canadian%20artist.jpg" width="221" /></a></div><p></p><p>His battalion, the 23rd Royal Fusiliers, experienced intense fighting at Vimy Ridge, and the following month they billeted at La Comte, Enquin-les-Mines, and Camblain-Chatelain. That was when the United States entered the war to fight alongside their allies in France.</p><p>The illustrated letter was reproduced in “Scribner’s Magazine” in December 1917.</p><div>A book of Fergus’s WW1 sketches - “A Tommy’s Life in the Trenches” has been put together and published by John Place, (whose Grandfather fought on the Somme) and William Mackain-Bremner (Grandson of Fergus's cousin). They have collected and published for the first time all the postcards drawn by Private Fergus Mackain during WW1, together with contextualizing commentary to the Western Front scenes depicted. Also included are reproductions of actual messages sent during the war on the back of Mackain's postcards. The book features more than 200 colour illustrations.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXh1hnfX0QfplpvX357Cx7EOL87ywBwMfXnhT6CWXEGEC2Cd5O6-gBe8g1QRrY70PYIhrTxAzDaMzeh4dT6v2Rp5IeZjj-A0-8G2-7FpAFDENrpSVhvv6Xsn9TLKmzygoP8Fxwlomv728hhjf-W4wzZw8CT74_Xp0Zv5VdycXTWnpoh5vn4-PCilbbRMo/s650/A%20Tommy's%20Life%20in%20the%20Trenches%20cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="453" data-original-width="650" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXh1hnfX0QfplpvX357Cx7EOL87ywBwMfXnhT6CWXEGEC2Cd5O6-gBe8g1QRrY70PYIhrTxAzDaMzeh4dT6v2Rp5IeZjj-A0-8G2-7FpAFDENrpSVhvv6Xsn9TLKmzygoP8Fxwlomv728hhjf-W4wzZw8CT74_Xp0Zv5VdycXTWnpoh5vn4-PCilbbRMo/s320/A%20Tommy's%20Life%20in%20the%20Trenches%20cover.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>This artist was found by Historian Ciaran Conlan via Hillebrand Rifles Facebook page. </p><p>Sources: Find my Past</p><p>http://www.fergusmackain.com/p/illustrated-letter.html</p><p>https://adventuresinhistoryland.com/tag/book-review-a-tommys-life-in-the-trenches-private-fergus-mackain/</p><p>https://adventuresinhistoryland.com/tag/book-review-a-tommys-life-in-the-trenches-private-fergus-mackain/</p><p>https://canadiangreatwarproject.com/person.php?pid=138541</p><p>http://www.fergusmackain.com/p/greetings-set.html</p><p>https://www.amberley-books.com/a-tommys-life-in-the-trenches.html</p><div>https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=206865831674413&set=pb.100070529913600.-2207520000</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13956422195610297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1117949030117695917.post-3860299138289984602023-10-01T08:05:00.001-07:002023-10-01T08:05:17.854-07:00 Alfred Pearse (1855 – 1933), also known as A Patriot, was a British artist, author, campaigner and inventor. <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn6jRKEKqqzrrqdK6dtMzHmo087a-1VltQhRsLWyz22zhEy4DpiXIQuSNkmcqU41VP6yxdi6Ef4Ihfs83PhQ26w_u5K2CoNe8QWGYXR7yBr_jG3lixwmMpSgw1YNkR_45FnhvwVGnlch4Pp8sN-3YNUUe-xmyFbRhP6mtqnAM9QfenazbGSetWpT0HaLo/s387/Alfred_Pearse%20Captain,%20NZRB,%201918%E2%80%9319.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="387" data-original-width="259" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn6jRKEKqqzrrqdK6dtMzHmo087a-1VltQhRsLWyz22zhEy4DpiXIQuSNkmcqU41VP6yxdi6Ef4Ihfs83PhQ26w_u5K2CoNe8QWGYXR7yBr_jG3lixwmMpSgw1YNkR_45FnhvwVGnlch4Pp8sN-3YNUUe-xmyFbRhP6mtqnAM9QfenazbGSetWpT0HaLo/s320/Alfred_Pearse%20Captain,%20NZRB,%201918%E2%80%9319.png" width="214" /></a></div>Born in St Pancras, London, UK, on 20th May 1855, Alfred’s parents were Joseph Salter Pearse, an artist, and his wife, Loveday Pearse, nee Colbron. Alfred studied at West London School of Art and gained numerous prizes for drawing.<p></p><p>In 1881, Alfred married Mary Blanche Lockwood. </p><p>As special artist and correspondent to “The Sphere”, Alfred was assigned to the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York's 1901 tour of New Zealand.</p><p>He designed posters campaigning for women's suffrage and drew a weekly cartoon for Votes for Women from 1909, and was also regularly published in “The Illustrated London News”, “Boy's Own Paper” and “Punch”. With Laurence Housman, Alfred set up the Suffrage Atelier.</p><p>Alfred produced various artworks, cartoons and propaganda related to British efforts during the First World War. </p><p>From 11 September 1918 to March 1919, he held an honorary Captain's commission in the New Zealand Rifle Brigade, NZEF, as official artist, painting the battle scenes in which the 1st NZRB figured. He was attached to Brigadier General Charles Melvill's headquarters and left London for France on 27 September 1918.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfibsbrGs5ZvqKPa1mkMFSP0mPk8GsAFS2UCLT4SGO9Rd2K8BhXve2UxjWciS2aXiuZo_dyE-L0pTiAsvOX1Z8z6S0AU1kypuvXBcg2dsRETZ2YmxqbLSZfVjE5Oo_TdlpFPAUKUftV9iBrnx99BopcxxL3GNXUdrXZEjOaoT7nKCG-Kui8IYQQgoJ0qQ/s594/The%20Battle%20of%20Polygon%20Wood%20From%20Original%20Drawing%20by%20A.%20Pearse,%20War%20Artist..jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="414" data-original-width="594" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfibsbrGs5ZvqKPa1mkMFSP0mPk8GsAFS2UCLT4SGO9Rd2K8BhXve2UxjWciS2aXiuZo_dyE-L0pTiAsvOX1Z8z6S0AU1kypuvXBcg2dsRETZ2YmxqbLSZfVjE5Oo_TdlpFPAUKUftV9iBrnx99BopcxxL3GNXUdrXZEjOaoT7nKCG-Kui8IYQQgoJ0qQ/s320/The%20Battle%20of%20Polygon%20Wood%20From%20Original%20Drawing%20by%20A.%20Pearse,%20War%20Artist..jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">The Battle of Polygon Wood</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Alfred was a wood engraver, book illustrator and art critic, working for the “Manchester Guardian”, and for eight years was a member of Joseph Barnby's Royal Choral Society.</p><p>Amongst his inventions, Alfred patented improvements to vehicle and cycle wheels, improvements relating to the frames of velocipedes, a method for animating advertising hoardings in 1908–1912, improvements in flying machines, devised a model air-ship for the October 1905 readers of “The Boy's Own Paper”.</p><p>His son, Denis Colbron Pearse, (1883–1971) also became an illustrator.</p><p>The Suffrage Atelier was an artists' collective campaigning for women's suffrage in Britain. It was founded in February 1909 by Laurence Housman, Clemence Housman and Alfred Pearse. Clemence was a writer, illustrator, and wood engraver, and her brother Laurence was a fantasy writer. (A.E. Houseman was Clemence and Lawrence's brother.)</p><p>Sources:</p><p>Alfred Pearse, Captain, NZRB, 1918–19</p><p>Photo: Elliott & Fry</p><p>The Battle of Polygon Wood - a postcard from Original Drawing by A. Pearse, official NZ War Artist.</p><p>The New Zealand Rifle Brigade (Earl of Liverpool's Own), affectionately known as The Dinks, was formed on 1 May 1915 as the third brigade of the New Zealand Division, part of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. During the First World War the Brigade fought in Egypt, against the Senussi, and then on the Western Front and was disbanded on 4 February 1919.</p><p>Sources: Find my Past, Free BMD, Wikipedia, </p><p>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_Rifle_Brigade_(Earl_of_Liverpool%27s_Own)</p><div><br /></div>Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13956422195610297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1117949030117695917.post-56110832731901361482023-09-19T05:22:00.004-07:002023-09-19T05:27:06.912-07:00Edward Carter Preston (1884 –1965) - British artist, sculptor and medallist.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdnamsjnGPXj8lXW9iqTEZcWo1F47WLua08DON0T8Cuwv2V6hEaJS876LzurAt0t4Xwe85Fu2yCQy8RPBdtu6EwWxgeXEe-JFlE3CCoxLexsFozK8xxdNeRZYXzA0VzqFX67ryDo50BmSaLTJbMmsS9_L_g4I9YqbNQODaFmXCEHSuDRHN88VjtmLWijo/s261/Edward%20Carter%20Preston.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="193" data-original-width="261" height="193" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdnamsjnGPXj8lXW9iqTEZcWo1F47WLua08DON0T8Cuwv2V6hEaJS876LzurAt0t4Xwe85Fu2yCQy8RPBdtu6EwWxgeXEe-JFlE3CCoxLexsFozK8xxdNeRZYXzA0VzqFX67ryDo50BmSaLTJbMmsS9_L_g4I9YqbNQODaFmXCEHSuDRHN88VjtmLWijo/s1600/Edward%20Carter%20Preston.jpeg" width="261" /></a></div>Edward Carter Preston was born in Liverpool, UK on 7th July 1884. His parents were Robert John Preston and his wife, Sarah Ellen Preston, nee Dodd. <p></p><p>Edward became an artist and designed medals, including the bronze WW1 Next of Kin Memorial Plaque and the Distinguished Flying Cross. His innovative ‘Plychrome’ sculptures were made to support the rehabilitation of those who had been disabled in active service.</p><p><br /></p><p>In 1911, Edward married Marie Smith in Liverpool. Marie’s brother was the sculptor Herbert Tyson Smith (1883–1972), who served in the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War and designed sculptures in the Liverpool and Merseyside area, in particular war memorials. </p><p>Edward and Marie’s daughter Julia Carter Preston (26 January 1926 – 6 January 2012) – became a potter. </p><p>During the First World Wara, Edward designed this memorial plaque*</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRhSrf2QpanwuBq8QQvxJlmqYF-WCCocTgoNWwxxGE-aKfmSqLudT-L6sgD23ZVamzG97dLhJ9Cc_svv4bqPJ0p0OXnmYI2isgphk5WW-NyRSsY9HrTkNMTxLApKIuitP89hhkJNuPiTbjiwYcMDL3Pb833rqzYRWAulrdXgm9SkJSjq0qfvsYlAugR9M/s300/Memorial%20Plaque%20WW1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="291" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRhSrf2QpanwuBq8QQvxJlmqYF-WCCocTgoNWwxxGE-aKfmSqLudT-L6sgD23ZVamzG97dLhJ9Cc_svv4bqPJ0p0OXnmYI2isgphk5WW-NyRSsY9HrTkNMTxLApKIuitP89hhkJNuPiTbjiwYcMDL3Pb833rqzYRWAulrdXgm9SkJSjq0qfvsYlAugR9M/s1600/Memorial%20Plaque%20WW1.jpg" width="291" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p>A major commission for Edward began in 1931, when the architect Giles Gilbert Scott asked him to produce a series of sculptures for the Liverpool Anglican Cathedral. The project was an immense undertaking which occupied the artist for the next thirty years. The work for the cathedral included fifty sculptures, ten memorials and several reliefs. Edward also exhibited works at the Royal Scottish Academy Exhibition 1938.</p><p>* In late 1917, with direct input from King George V, it was decided that in addition to the respective campaign service medals awarded to all participants, the official next of kin of a serviceman or woman who gave their life should receive another more specific token of appreciation. This was a big call, because it is impossible to thank the individual concerned, and nothing can make up for the loss of a loved one to their family.</p><p>The conclusion was that a bronze Memorial Plaque should be issued and a national competition was held to find the most suitable design. There were more than 800 entries to the competition from within the United Kingdom, from countries in the British Empire and from the theatres of war. The panel of judges, included Directors of the London National Gallery and the Director and Keeper of the Department of Coins and Medals of the Victoria and Albert Museum. They selected the design by Edward Carter Preston. In all, approximately 1.3 million Memorial Plaques were issued to the families of men who died, and 600 issued to the families of the women.</p><p>A decision was made that the Memorial Plaque should be accompanied by a commemorative scroll and the organising committee sought advice on the wording from several well-known authors. Dr Montague Rhodes James (author M.R. James - 1862 - 1936), who was Provost of King’s College, Cambridge at the time, provided a draft which, with a few small amendments, was selected to appear on the scroll. The text was beneath the Royal coat of arms and above the name of the honouree - which was handwritten in red at the bottom. </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJnzwddR2CoIws5T6OyrRtMOPiN31WyQ8-CLGtW9xtsAovwB0Q_X94xGWyCA2-bK9wdViLGFHRAHiyZWxNjmTMmod5b5xLLULzvt3G2EBNsdULENrkJMzLinZC-7JrT5MKEcHEC6ObBQ0MgkD-s4d2Or7CcsAxa_a1J5seiwilIvRnmCCwTcKmxnuRMpc/s1024/WW1%20Memorial%20Scroll%20M%20R%20James.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="576" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJnzwddR2CoIws5T6OyrRtMOPiN31WyQ8-CLGtW9xtsAovwB0Q_X94xGWyCA2-bK9wdViLGFHRAHiyZWxNjmTMmod5b5xLLULzvt3G2EBNsdULENrkJMzLinZC-7JrT5MKEcHEC6ObBQ0MgkD-s4d2Or7CcsAxa_a1J5seiwilIvRnmCCwTcKmxnuRMpc/s320/WW1%20Memorial%20Scroll%20M%20R%20James.jpg" width="180" /></a></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p>Sources: Find my Past, Free BMD, Wikipedia and</p><p>https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=12771</p><p>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial_Plaque_(medallion)</p><p>https://www.artinliverpool.com/venues-archives/hope-university-archive/liverpool-hope-university-edward-carter-preston-the-great-war/</p><p>https://www.artinliverpool.com/features/reviews/debbie-lang-interviews-susan-breck-about-edwards-carter-prestons-intimate-retrospective-in-the-cornerstone/</p><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13956422195610297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1117949030117695917.post-67664452267795525562023-08-15T05:07:00.002-07:002024-01-12T05:59:57.298-08:00John Turner MC, Croix de Guerre (1882 – 1918) – British schoolteacher and artist (known as Jack Turner)<p style="text-align: center;"><b><i> With thanks to Chris Warren for contacting me and sending me a copy of the book he edited and published with his Uncle Jack’s letters sent home from the Western Front - “Somewhere in France: Letters written from the Front 1914 – 1918 by Jack Turner, MC, Croix de Guerre”. And for kindly sending me photographs of Jack, his grave and memorial and illustrations done by Jack and giving me permission to share them.</i></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><i><br /></i></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidNKQaIsfEc6gIMzzorfDt5CdV6jwzeBcCyc9U8pO5eU4HEfLoUUx767nsJ2zMC0EetTIeB-vcrbZwX1Vq5x2YyOItyNrNn4NL-ygTVlkizJfVYYFM8RKNH6EUXovSdzWHaSRr1WeY9y1ZVESSkZfTg96ZclBJjabsCBgKkciJAZdX9A4er3xc3uUH96o/s2000/John%20Turner%20known%20as%20Jack%201882%20-%201918%20artist%20uncle%20of%20Chris%20Warren.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1572" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidNKQaIsfEc6gIMzzorfDt5CdV6jwzeBcCyc9U8pO5eU4HEfLoUUx767nsJ2zMC0EetTIeB-vcrbZwX1Vq5x2YyOItyNrNn4NL-ygTVlkizJfVYYFM8RKNH6EUXovSdzWHaSRr1WeY9y1ZVESSkZfTg96ZclBJjabsCBgKkciJAZdX9A4er3xc3uUH96o/s320/John%20Turner%20known%20as%20Jack%201882%20-%201918%20artist%20uncle%20of%20Chris%20Warren.jpg" width="252" /></a></div>John Turner was born in Coggershall, Essex, UK in 1882. His parents were John Rootsey Turner, a solicitor's clerk, and his wife, Emma Turner, nee Leech, who were married in Colchester in 1880 and lived in Great Coggeshall, Braintree, Essex. <p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">John – who was always known as Jack – became a primary school teacher and was an accomplished artist.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">In 1914 Jack joined the Saltley College Company of the 8th Royal Warwickshire Regiment as an infantryman. In December 1915, he was gazetted as a Lieutenant. The Regiment were in action on the Western Front during the first day of the Battle of the Somme on 1st July 1916, when Jack was awarded the Military Cross for conspicuous gallantry in the field. On 1st June 1918, Jack was awarded the French Croix de Guerre.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Jack was killed in action by a sniper on 22nd October 1918, by which time he was a Captain. He was buried in ST. AUBERT BRITISH CEMETERY, France, Grave Reference Plot III. A. 17 and is also remembered by a memorial cross dedicated to him in Coggeshall church graveyard, Essex.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjld1LiFlSXZUP6wFyVa3VGLl9m0ZtZHjIOW4NlqUFJGw0d6uLsfRSnVVCedWJgxJqZ3mGAbAA6BCW2lY_qxzBtwmFBlYB_0ILKorpGvHCWMXuBuFLWHtRH2lLzJU-fQHrpEf95FTyrOFEHvIDzjIYmBk1n6wCpmMyyxzCNjKjJxe9nofKL3-5UzwT6-JU/s2496/John%20Turnder's%20grave%20in%20St.%20Aubert%20British%20Cemetery.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2496" data-original-width="1664" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjld1LiFlSXZUP6wFyVa3VGLl9m0ZtZHjIOW4NlqUFJGw0d6uLsfRSnVVCedWJgxJqZ3mGAbAA6BCW2lY_qxzBtwmFBlYB_0ILKorpGvHCWMXuBuFLWHtRH2lLzJU-fQHrpEf95FTyrOFEHvIDzjIYmBk1n6wCpmMyyxzCNjKjJxe9nofKL3-5UzwT6-JU/s320/John%20Turnder's%20grave%20in%20St.%20Aubert%20British%20Cemetery.jpg" width="213" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Captin J Turner M.C's grave in<br />St. Aubert British Cemetery, France</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">In a letter home written in July 1915 by Chris’s Uncle Jack when he was serving on the Western Front, he wrote about meeting the Catholic Chaplain Father Albert Purdie and reading his poem about Ploegsteert Wood. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">For the poem by Father Purdie, please see</p><p style="text-align: justify;">http://forgottenpoetsofww1.blogspot.com/2023/08/albert-bertrand-purdie-1888-1976.html</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUpTZjJ6ZjJdhn2XYECCFew6rmnxSD4VSeXPSUSjWvCNe9d5EaPR7Bg-bTOUBZPoro8hmXjF8i_CVS_rZ5nPyN991U3PmRGsexa_f1uk4XQ67PdVIKXA2psniF2brFun-L96fDWwqe7Xb2c2dxANpr5lXfp6oKQ46hYEAyipU3P81q7KN8bDR3dN7ZYzs/s720/Painting%20by%20Jack%20Turner%20Chris%20Warren's%20Uncle%20Jack.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="476" data-original-width="720" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUpTZjJ6ZjJdhn2XYECCFew6rmnxSD4VSeXPSUSjWvCNe9d5EaPR7Bg-bTOUBZPoro8hmXjF8i_CVS_rZ5nPyN991U3PmRGsexa_f1uk4XQ67PdVIKXA2psniF2brFun-L96fDWwqe7Xb2c2dxANpr5lXfp6oKQ46hYEAyipU3P81q7KN8bDR3dN7ZYzs/s320/Painting%20by%20Jack%20Turner%20Chris%20Warren's%20Uncle%20Jack.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A painting by Jack Turner</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: justify;">In another letter Jack says: “… we dropped in to see Father Purdie at his billet. I like him much: he is one of the best-read men I have come across – also tall, with a clean boyish face and gold-rimmed glasses. He is not more than 26, quotes Virgil, and is a personal friend of the Meynells* and of the late Robert Hugh Benson*.” Being an artist, Jack continued: “He talks of writing something for me to illustrate. I have already drawn him a lovely Spahi (frun Tunis) smiling at one of the girls I know here: she was amusing him for me. He has also given me a jolly little “Garden of the Soul” (Lady Edmond Talbot’s gift to the Catholic soldiers) which is small but has all the offices in.”</p><p style="text-align: justify;">* Alice MEYNELL (1847 - 1922), her husband Wilfrid (1852 – 1948) - pen-name John Oldcastle - her daughter Viola (1885 - 1956) and her son Francis (1891 – 1975) were all poets, and Alice's sister was the artist Elizabeth Lady Butler. Robert Hugh Benson (1871 – 1914) was a British Catholic priest and writer. First an Anglican priest, he was received into the Catholic Church in 1903 and ordained the following year.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Sources: Find my Past, FreeBMD</p><p style="text-align: justify;">“Somewhere in France: Letters written from the Front 1914 – 1918 by Jack Turner, MC, Croix de Guerre” </p><p style="text-align: justify;">https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/24180768/john-turner</p><p style="text-align: justify;">https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=GBM%2FLIVES%2F4522268</p><p style="text-align: justify;">and photographs sent to me by Chris Warren, who is also an accomplished poet, and has published these two magnificent books about the First World War:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYriz1Wy7io15IBKQh28yw7SSqpc_rcSpmxObePd_05e2XaD740tR8ZvkYfQveDmS9dNesTAlsV2ypaT5LORSJCOQIJ4yTI0SGlgBaxxCVh2FDdN50zBFodL7V5rRrU8rOYpGd-0izUYDegKOdbzyUgtqg9lh71iEvmV2OiQcp9y0jCvUqJLUlBDvMy3c/s3796/Warren%20books%20photo%20of%20covers.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2904" data-original-width="3796" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYriz1Wy7io15IBKQh28yw7SSqpc_rcSpmxObePd_05e2XaD740tR8ZvkYfQveDmS9dNesTAlsV2ypaT5LORSJCOQIJ4yTI0SGlgBaxxCVh2FDdN50zBFodL7V5rRrU8rOYpGd-0izUYDegKOdbzyUgtqg9lh71iEvmV2OiQcp9y0jCvUqJLUlBDvMy3c/s320/Warren%20books%20photo%20of%20covers.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: justify;">“In Flanders Now: The War Poems of Father Albert Purdie 1915 - 1918” and</p><div style="text-align: justify;">“Somewhere in France: Letters written from the Front 1914 – 1918 by Jack Turner, MC, Croix de Guerre”. These books can be purchased by following the links:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><br /></div><div>https://www.blurb.co.uk/b/11285382-in-flanders-now</div><div> </div><div>https://www.blurb.co.uk/b/9304624-somewhere-in-france</div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFwfTVTgOVfCcMoqKWSiEE1-j_4Jr1ti0thWPxCpq-jK8SPsSHmjlnYttlbmsYEVfEeJnOm2fuB8T9x3JFs_PlWKWD1Q32fwqAS_ytuNTtOl_9YeVqCtimZnomdN_TwHq2t6g8ns1CsB-in893a0psHVTT3nWzsHP2DWT-ZLil9qig22b8pS_JY_jjOf4/s3616/Jack%20Turnder%20memorial%20cross%20Coggeshall%20Churchyard.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3616" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFwfTVTgOVfCcMoqKWSiEE1-j_4Jr1ti0thWPxCpq-jK8SPsSHmjlnYttlbmsYEVfEeJnOm2fuB8T9x3JFs_PlWKWD1Q32fwqAS_ytuNTtOl_9YeVqCtimZnomdN_TwHq2t6g8ns1CsB-in893a0psHVTT3nWzsHP2DWT-ZLil9qig22b8pS_JY_jjOf4/s320/Jack%20Turnder%20memorial%20cross%20Coggeshall%20Churchyard.jpg" width="181" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Memorial cross for Captain John<br />Turner, Coggeshall Graveyard,<br />Essex</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13956422195610297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1117949030117695917.post-12296082430885626742023-05-12T11:53:00.001-07:002023-05-12T11:53:15.854-07:00 Fortunino Matania (1881 – 1963) – Italian-born artist<p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4OvWfGD4avV-tQcMtVFqpGkHq2mf9G8hgIw0Qa7bZEb3lQTXp99S2x4G78P4UEBazBsecdZaWs_3SIonTylxbzvGNvUbA3oYomN3Fm5U9Rg7ZvMq6gE2sqhqGNAcVJZAZeLbpxRettt6PVgCtUGkkwjwovlg98LdUwTbu1DQbvCh6tYcca3vCxtDh/s709/Fortunino_Matania_1915_portrait%20in%20The%20Sphere.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="709" data-original-width="521" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4OvWfGD4avV-tQcMtVFqpGkHq2mf9G8hgIw0Qa7bZEb3lQTXp99S2x4G78P4UEBazBsecdZaWs_3SIonTylxbzvGNvUbA3oYomN3Fm5U9Rg7ZvMq6gE2sqhqGNAcVJZAZeLbpxRettt6PVgCtUGkkwjwovlg98LdUwTbu1DQbvCh6tYcca3vCxtDh/s320/Fortunino_Matania_1915_portrait%20in%20The%20Sphere.jpg" width="235" /></a></div>Fortunino Matania was born in Naples, Italy on 16th April 1881. His parents were Eduardo Matania, an artist and his wife, Celia Matania, nee Gennaro. Fortunino learnt art in his father’s studio and his cousin, Ugo Matania (1888-1979), also became an artist.<p></p><p>Fortunino designed an advertisement for soap when he was nine years old, before beginning to help his father with illustrations for books and magazines. In the early 1900s Fortunino went to work in Paris for the magazine “Illustration Française” and in 1902 he was invited to London in order to illustrate the Coronation of King Edward VII for “The Graphic” magazine. The family settled in London, living in Paddington. </p><p>Fortunino illustrated every major event of British Royal Family, up to the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. </p><p>From 1908 Fortunino’s work was published in magazines in Britain and America, including “The Illustrated London News”, “London Magazine”, “Nash's” and “Printer's Pie”. </p><p>When war broke out in 1914, Fortunino became a war artist. His most famous painting is arguably the one he made for the Blue Cross animal charity entitled “Goodbye, Old Man”, showing a British soldier saying farewell to his dying horse. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH5V_FIpSr_zCDX5TOAQMiNkpdr7PYR_n_kayhlDk6f27hLImzUfcFDOb_knWrCSeJAELguiZbECCsiwEppIrcB0KEsHpYIY9QK8eCif-9td8gstrIDYXVpDugQM3O6MbYaMxiIX_n-kWPq0Wn2cTpN76x3kUDNjOVhT5hO79FOOIFejOeqq5Hdi8W/s550/Goodbye%20Old%20Man.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="550" data-original-width="412" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH5V_FIpSr_zCDX5TOAQMiNkpdr7PYR_n_kayhlDk6f27hLImzUfcFDOb_knWrCSeJAELguiZbECCsiwEppIrcB0KEsHpYIY9QK8eCif-9td8gstrIDYXVpDugQM3O6MbYaMxiIX_n-kWPq0Wn2cTpN76x3kUDNjOVhT5hO79FOOIFejOeqq5Hdi8W/s320/Goodbye%20Old%20Man.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p></p><p>Fortunino was elected a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours in 1917. His talents made him a popular illustrator for designing advertising, posters and catalogues, and he worked for the British railway company London, Midland, Scottish (LMS), designing posters for Southport and Blackpool. He also designed posters for Ovaltine, Burberry's and many other companies. </p><p>Fortunino was recommended to Hollywood film director Cecil B. DeMille and produced a number of paintings of Rome and Egypt from which authentic designs were made for the film “The Ten Commandments”.</p><p>Fortunino died in London on 8th February 1963.</p><p><br /></p><p>Books illustrated by Fortunino Matania</p><p>Six Stories from Shakespeare, retold by John Buchan (1934)</p><p>Raphael and Stella: A Baker's Delight Immortalised in Paint, by Matania (1944)</p><p>Great Stories from History, Ed. Edward Horton and Peter Shellard (1970)</p><p>The Eagle Book of Amazing Stories 1974 (1973)</p><p>With the British Army on the Western Front: Twelve Signed Artist's Proofs. London: The Sphere & Tatler; [1916]</p><p>For a WW1 poem entitled “Goodbye Old Man” by Mackenzie Bell, please see</p><p>http://forgottenpoetsofww1.blogspot.com/2023/05/good-bye-old-man-poem-written-by.html</p><div><br /></div><p><br /></p>Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13956422195610297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1117949030117695917.post-42681243372488850742023-03-24T06:40:00.006-07:002023-03-24T06:40:55.939-07:00Victor François Tardieu (1870 – 1937) - French artist; cofounder of what is now known as the Vietnam University of Fine Arts.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnsPxw3l2xf48O9DwAwunHrIl3GVzCZoR029hdTNmelwWGMBuaafnG7dUyQpnuOz1EnOjWvG9tb6V6M_gW-7BnYIXWZdOOaFiTIjoSYeWIk2xtEyZmXSWZvumPspoOvyV1J8mDN0wzWEJKf-YdyiVLKwvaDwkr1GB7DX_4179_El8y0hzbkmbrFWYf/s255/Victor%20Tardieu.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="198" data-original-width="255" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnsPxw3l2xf48O9DwAwunHrIl3GVzCZoR029hdTNmelwWGMBuaafnG7dUyQpnuOz1EnOjWvG9tb6V6M_gW-7BnYIXWZdOOaFiTIjoSYeWIk2xtEyZmXSWZvumPspoOvyV1J8mDN0wzWEJKf-YdyiVLKwvaDwkr1GB7DX_4179_El8y0hzbkmbrFWYf/s1600/Victor%20Tardieu.jpeg" width="255" /></a></div>Born in France in Orliénas (département du Rhône, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes) on 30th April 1870, Victor enrolled at the École nationale des Beaux-arts de Lyon in 1887. After two years there, he transferred to the Académie Julian in Paris, where he studied for a year. In 1890, he enrolled at the École des Beaux-arts de Paris, with the advice and support of Léon Bonnat. He was employed in the workshops of Bonnat and Albert Maignan until 1894. He also collaborated with the stained glass artist, producing a series of glass boxes.<p></p><p><br /></p><p>In 1902, Victor married the harpist, Caroline Luigini, daughter of the composer and conductor, Alexandre Luigini. They had one son - Jean Tardieu, who became a writer.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUgYvtDZ457O0saVkEu22qFYfHBc5HRLs4I2iKsylqDGdbtPcBZ6prAcDmq6mphIN4G5kQAbVU6QziNG4JuZL6v1RA7A51Cd4cV6M1BPJSVsGfeSLc9AMKjF07Kzlm1edJglCORIw95aNoohNfTTJXRthiMX5Yj1DOKhKM6CY3AO3BdI3e7c1XEwAR/s250/Millicent%20Duchess%20of%20Sutherland%20Hospital%20France%20WW1%20Victor%20Tardieu.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="202" data-original-width="250" height="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUgYvtDZ457O0saVkEu22qFYfHBc5HRLs4I2iKsylqDGdbtPcBZ6prAcDmq6mphIN4G5kQAbVU6QziNG4JuZL6v1RA7A51Cd4cV6M1BPJSVsGfeSLc9AMKjF07Kzlm1edJglCORIw95aNoohNfTTJXRthiMX5Yj1DOKhKM6CY3AO3BdI3e7c1XEwAR/s1600/Millicent%20Duchess%20of%20Sutherland%20Hospital%20France%20WW1%20Victor%20Tardieu.jpeg" width="250" /></a></div><p></p><p>In 1914, Victor volunteered for service in the First World War and worked as a medical orderly in a field hospital near Dunkirk; during which time he continued to sketch and paint. </p><p>In 1915, Victor painted some of the scenes at the Hospital in the Oatfield, organised by British poet and nurse Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland in France in the early days of WW1. </p><p>Victor's paintings of the Hospital in the Oatfield are now owned by the Florence Nightingale Museum in London.<br /></p><p><br /></p><p>In 1925, Victor and his friend, the painter Nguyễn Nam Sơn, created the École des Beaux-Arts de l'Indochine (now the Vietnam University of Fine Arts), where he served as Director until 1936. Victor died in Hanoi, Vietnam on 12th June 1937.</p><p>Sources:</p><p>https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Tardieu</p><p>https://www.florence-nightingale.co.uk/the-hospital-in-the-oatfield/</p><p>https://femalewarpoets.blogspot.com/2018/03/a-book-about-ww1-poet-millicent-duchess.html</p><p>https://femalewarpoets.blogspot.com/2018/03/a-book-about-ww1-poet-millicent-duchess.html</p><p><br /></p>Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13956422195610297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1117949030117695917.post-65824230787952351512023-03-20T08:01:00.009-07:002023-03-20T08:10:00.936-07:00Maurice Wagemans (1877-1927) – Belgian artist <p style="text-align: center;"><b><i>With thanks to Historian, Poet, Writer, Translator AC Benus for</i></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><i>finding this artist for us</i></b></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXVk0hGhoNN9SXUc9DN3YiR-z2RR6oosQ2JCjyNz_c75gNKrCWttfzktn8RfSZ-7U1JSWmDaQEuZDyqKryciIXuuEf1PHfsxzY47fn1_IslLK-C2TEcl9YBQmMbCkMU6SwZTrEu9ZnW2MfpUQ9gAADaMPyIYn0vAidUg6K18mFo9tIZcM1nZ2GwL5J/s225/Maurice%20Wagemans%20Belgian%20artist.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="182" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXVk0hGhoNN9SXUc9DN3YiR-z2RR6oosQ2JCjyNz_c75gNKrCWttfzktn8RfSZ-7U1JSWmDaQEuZDyqKryciIXuuEf1PHfsxzY47fn1_IslLK-C2TEcl9YBQmMbCkMU6SwZTrEu9ZnW2MfpUQ9gAADaMPyIYn0vAidUg6K18mFo9tIZcM1nZ2GwL5J/s1600/Maurice%20Wagemans%20Belgian%20artist.JPG" width="182" /></a></div>Maurice Wagemans was born in Brussels, Belgium on 18th May 1877. He studied art at the Academy of Brussels from 1890 to 1895, with Jan Portaels and Joseph Stallaert as professors, before completing his education in Paris, at the same time as Alfred Bastien and Frans Smeers. <p></p><p>Maurice painted historical scenes, domestic scenes, portraits, nudes, beach scenes, landscapes and seascapes. </p><p>During the First World War, Maurice volunteered and became a member of the Section Artistique at the Front (see below).</p><p>His villa “Sunshine” became a point of attraction for other painters, from France, the United States of America and Japan. In later years, when their works were labeled “academic impressionism”, some of these artists began to practice a new direction that would come to be known as Flemish Expressionism.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxHJQLphJ-E97jZcEnlI-XA_JwXgK7RrcpkiW3gyxf_0Fsh9gUUfL_sw4FpYQkLwajVCd77spIaAccqR9LKlwGxxGwbidr9sp4xlvhhU17wIOYtowntnJ9gV2jOeP2Rm4cZPgOJsqYde49wOnQoWJ6Duvz_BN6Jt_907hTz85QbTvQIwEKO4nwZ63C/s246/Heros%20postcard%20Maurice%20Wagemans%201916.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="205" data-original-width="246" height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxHJQLphJ-E97jZcEnlI-XA_JwXgK7RrcpkiW3gyxf_0Fsh9gUUfL_sw4FpYQkLwajVCd77spIaAccqR9LKlwGxxGwbidr9sp4xlvhhU17wIOYtowntnJ9gV2jOeP2Rm4cZPgOJsqYde49wOnQoWJ6Duvz_BN6Jt_907hTz85QbTvQIwEKO4nwZ63C/s1600/Heros%20postcard%20Maurice%20Wagemans%201916.jpeg" width="246" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">WW1 postcard by Maurice Wagemans<br />entitled "Heros"</td></tr></tbody></table><p>Maurice was a member of several artists' associations: Artists Association, Cercle Artistique et Littéraire (Brussels), Pour l'Art, Le Sillon and Kunst van Heden. </p><p>Maurice died in Bredene on the Belgian coast in West Flanders on 31st July 1927 and was buried in the Cemetery Paster Pype on the Nieuwpoortsesteenweg in Ostend, Belgium.</p><p>You can see other examples of Maurice's WW1 paintings on this website, from which the biographical information is taken: https://muizenest.nl/2017/04/19/maurice-wagemans/</p><p><b>Note: Section Artistique de l’Armée belge en Campagne (Artistic Section of the Belgian Army in the Field)</b></p><p>It was not until 1916, a relatively calm year on the Yser front, that the Section Artistique de l’Armée belge en Campagne (Artistic Section of the Belgian Army in the Field) was created. The origin of this unit is somewhat vague since no official decision is included in the general staff's Daily Orders, but its paternity is generally attributed to Alfred Bastien, with the support of the Royal couple through the intermediary of Jules Ingenbleek, the King's secretary. </p><p>Posted to Nieuwpoort, the Brussels painter was joined, between July 1916 and August 1918, by 25 other artists with differing styles and sensitivities; the youngest were Joseph Vandegem (20 years) and André Lynen (28 years), while the oldest were in their 40s. This was not a simple company of brotherly artists, as had been the wish of Alfred Bastien, but rather an administrative division of the General Headquarters (located in La Panne), directed by an officer and subject to strict regulations. Set down on 23 June 1916, these regulations stipulate that the Section members are free to exercise their art (Article I) but that "no painting, outline, drawing or sketch can be published or sold during the war without the approval of the General Headquarters censor" (Article V), while the government also retains "a right of priority for the possible purchase of their works" (Article IV) ; moreover, though there is "no provision for promotion in rank or salary increase" and while they "must provide for themselves" (Article II), the artists are dispensed from any guard duties and other tedious obligations related to their function as a soldier.</p><p>Source:</p><p>https://www.rtbf.be/ww1/topics/detail_pencil-charcoal-and-brushes-at-the-front-the-artistic-section-of-the-belgian-army-in-the-field?id=8355944</p><p><br /></p><div><br /></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div><br /></div>Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13956422195610297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1117949030117695917.post-65808764292517001482023-03-19T06:09:00.004-07:002023-03-19T06:09:54.792-07:00Lucy Kemp Welch (1869 – 1958) – British artist specialising in the painting of horses <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhFHZBX251cyp2Xypz8zGiP5Q6TQvV_C5gQilH7UUIvG7YLJx2RtiZJO8ND1s9vGP2sn0_A7AbdjBJAIdQa7GT_CWZaHLiH2gNVqfB8t0dGtyDiKzTcMSkcwuTq0cMuKPWILANBKQTUcU1il3Lu2EFXxFbMsBXCf8CLecMA80PTamMdb-lojHNdWRz/s400/Lucy%20E%20Kemp%20Welch%20artist.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="400" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhFHZBX251cyp2Xypz8zGiP5Q6TQvV_C5gQilH7UUIvG7YLJx2RtiZJO8ND1s9vGP2sn0_A7AbdjBJAIdQa7GT_CWZaHLiH2gNVqfB8t0dGtyDiKzTcMSkcwuTq0cMuKPWILANBKQTUcU1il3Lu2EFXxFbMsBXCf8CLecMA80PTamMdb-lojHNdWRz/s320/Lucy%20E%20Kemp%20Welch%20artist.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Lucy Elizabeth Kemp Welch was born in Bournemouth, UK on 20th June 1869. Her parents were Edwin B. Kemp Welch, a solicitor, and his wife, Elizabeth Kemp Welch, nee Oakes. Lucy’s younger sister, Edith (1871 – 1941), also studied art and became an artist, as did their cousin, Margaret Kemp-Welch (1874-1968).<p></p><p>Educated at a local art school, Lucy and Edith went to Bushey, Hertfordshire in 1891 to enrol in Hubert von Herkomer’s art school. As one of Herkomer's best students, Lucy set up her own studio in a former inn known as 'Kingsley'. Lucy took over the running of the Herkomer School in 1905 and ran it until 1926, first as the Bushey School of Painting and then, after moving it into her own home, as the Kemp-Welch School of Animal Painting.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz5YG-atGkmqVp0dTuWWHPugIlzTGVZ1FBad3QXln47-GJzWAQ1K_-cvNPzE_JwRsxEU79LBZtoLZpHBtf-ObQdTsysSXURx06_Z82o5PTB8cPPyVnDgaguHgrI4VDvFBqkxUCJn5D8Bg6ClHqmpe4FIOs_M7mqGzsmd_1G372kgTCofACwlw8lyVq/s275/Forward%20the%20Guns%20Lucy%20Kemp%20Welch.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="275" data-original-width="183" height="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz5YG-atGkmqVp0dTuWWHPugIlzTGVZ1FBad3QXln47-GJzWAQ1K_-cvNPzE_JwRsxEU79LBZtoLZpHBtf-ObQdTsysSXURx06_Z82o5PTB8cPPyVnDgaguHgrI4VDvFBqkxUCJn5D8Bg6ClHqmpe4FIOs_M7mqGzsmd_1G372kgTCofACwlw8lyVq/s1600/Forward%20the%20Guns%20Lucy%20Kemp%20Welch.jpeg" width="183" /></a></div><br /><p>In December 1914, Lucy was commissioned by the British Parliamentary Recruiting Committee to paint the artwork for an army recruitment poster – “Forward! Forward to Victory Enlist Now”. In 1916, she sought and was given permission to visit the Royal Field Artillery camp at Bulford on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, UK. The officer in command of the camp allowed Lucy to set up an easel while eight batteries of horse artillery were continually ridden towards her so she could sketch the horse teams in movement at close quarters.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSPTcm12O7e2rtCys6sYAqPRr0ZS0JjiaOSCuMO8RrE_2etPW9ZdbfU9XtPSwCSTT9bY0YdbZ94iOZTBOUmEFf9bWNLAJnLTYTp51h-VUS-1m9mxF9ZzekNMW568ENDfwWKhl4ag7ZuC69vr_ht8ENtWt1_dPQ9uvxSl4o4GQzma2V_S0MNCzqkBzk/s317/Big%20Guns%20to%20the%20Front%20Lucy%20E%20Kemp%20Welch.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="159" data-original-width="317" height="159" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSPTcm12O7e2rtCys6sYAqPRr0ZS0JjiaOSCuMO8RrE_2etPW9ZdbfU9XtPSwCSTT9bY0YdbZ94iOZTBOUmEFf9bWNLAJnLTYTp51h-VUS-1m9mxF9ZzekNMW568ENDfwWKhl4ag7ZuC69vr_ht8ENtWt1_dPQ9uvxSl4o4GQzma2V_S0MNCzqkBzk/s1600/Big%20Guns%20to%20the%20Front%20Lucy%20E%20Kemp%20Welch.jpeg" width="317" /></a></div><br /><p>As well as Bulford Camp, Lucy also visited several other Royal Artillery camps. The resulting pictures included “Big Guns to the Front”, an image of shire horses pulling guns through a snowy landscape, which was shown to great acclaim at the Royal Academy in 1918 and was purchased for the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff in 1921.</p><p>Lucy also painted scenes at First World War Remount Depots. Although perhaps Lucy is best known for the paintings of horses in military service she produced during World War One, she also illustrated the 1915 edition of Anna Sewell's Black Beauty.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9cuP4odqdhUK5GAw0mVYho7ftPfDWjMNiAcst2vU7bU-YzuwBYElCru7i7oZHWkg4N0rkQMcLXXMIQulFSn0Lmurct85ozkewezufJng_33yITytID9T8KgMHF-KrIo-QbuScYHTjCgHE5q2WkB0J6VEpZuzgoVkG7_jcINNomTpafTJ5n60JE_68/s624/Lucy%20Kemp-Welch%20painting%20Remount%20Depot.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="462" data-original-width="624" height="237" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9cuP4odqdhUK5GAw0mVYho7ftPfDWjMNiAcst2vU7bU-YzuwBYElCru7i7oZHWkg4N0rkQMcLXXMIQulFSn0Lmurct85ozkewezufJng_33yITytID9T8KgMHF-KrIo-QbuScYHTjCgHE5q2WkB0J6VEpZuzgoVkG7_jcINNomTpafTJ5n60JE_68/s320/Lucy%20Kemp-Welch%20painting%20Remount%20Depot.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p>The Army Remount Department was the body responsible for the purchase and training of horses and mules for military use between 1887 and 1942. Prior to the First World War the British army possessed around 25,000 horses; by the middle of 1917 this had increased to around 600,000, plus camels and oxen.</p><p>Lucy Kemp Welch died in Bushey, Hertfordshire on 27th November 1958.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCoRIJTfUN7QdWuRztbEg_iom9EUEo98gp-QV1ANLmd3IN1rxUHRupIqKK9QH3_F82KzWTNVCZoA-FjZ9isGpZ9-zcHmoaH9tnjtm6Wh_Ol7mt3ejiF6vfhcguynjCfwYyNRpsYbP4DAWMeZ8LxYJxvjSo4WBQI6eK75wTordTEDF5xaMNfwYy6ibv/s225/Lucy%20Kemp%20Welch%20by%20Harry%20Furniss.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="224" data-original-width="225" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCoRIJTfUN7QdWuRztbEg_iom9EUEo98gp-QV1ANLmd3IN1rxUHRupIqKK9QH3_F82KzWTNVCZoA-FjZ9isGpZ9-zcHmoaH9tnjtm6Wh_Ol7mt3ejiF6vfhcguynjCfwYyNRpsYbP4DAWMeZ8LxYJxvjSo4WBQI6eK75wTordTEDF5xaMNfwYy6ibv/s1600/Lucy%20Kemp%20Welch%20by%20Harry%20Furniss.jpeg" width="225" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lucy Kemp Welch by Irish-born artist<br />Harry Furniss (1854 - 1925)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>Sources: Find my Past, Free BMD, Wikipedia</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div><br /></div>Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13956422195610297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1117949030117695917.post-27945687842534723582023-03-17T06:57:00.005-07:002023-03-17T06:57:43.491-07:00 Edith Mary Kemp-Welch (1870–1941) was a British artist - portrait painter.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwjvSpT9LES3kp0XL1BCqKWhuNsobqzFQgjrxG_rjMnRzfTu2U-OYtiAcZuI_Zn-lsxZznebt-tXTqoyPTGYPcd0mw_ee-4Rq1Pn1eusij8RiF6WygsqZwRkylk9HY_Z0Ho3TCNcY2aOaFHtf6wHSuPTCaBgsN21n3hkLLJTkal28-ycIOeatiNRe1/s256/Edith%20Kemp%20Welch%20artist.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="256" data-original-width="197" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwjvSpT9LES3kp0XL1BCqKWhuNsobqzFQgjrxG_rjMnRzfTu2U-OYtiAcZuI_Zn-lsxZznebt-tXTqoyPTGYPcd0mw_ee-4Rq1Pn1eusij8RiF6WygsqZwRkylk9HY_Z0Ho3TCNcY2aOaFHtf6wHSuPTCaBgsN21n3hkLLJTkal28-ycIOeatiNRe1/s1600/Edith%20Kemp%20Welch%20artist.jpeg" width="197" /></a></div>Edith Kemp-Welch was born in 1970 in Christchurh, Hampshire, UK. Her parents were Edwin B. Kemp Welch, a solicitor, and his wife, Elizabeth Welch, nee Oakes. Edith grew up in Bournemouth and attended the Bournemouth School of Art. <p></p><p>In 1892, Edith enrolled at the art school founded by Hubert von Herkomer at Bushey in Hertfordshire. Edith continued living in Bushey and her elder sister, the artist Lucy Kemp-Welch, took over the running of the Herkomer school. Between 1898 and 1940, Edith Kemp-Welch exhibited a total of 29 paintings at the Royal Academy in London – these were mostly portraits but also included at last one landscape. The girls’ cousin Margaret Kemp-Welch (1874–1968) was also an artist.</p><p> During the First World War, both Edith and her sister Lucy produced recruiting posters for the British war effort. The poster created by Edith Kemp-Welch featured an image of Britannia with the slogan "Remember Scarborough ! Enlist Now", a reference to the war-time attack on Scarborough. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1UWzKp2iRWiwCpc5dGtNNwP_DUeIBaTRQ4KLW3QRU_Cxx5cuWrWQEndmWaKeHj6jaPv8vmOAZHDMwOrSHOgre_QanHSnUr-u0Zmuqq7rk-yJDeHRZHV1myn6UKVaGmQZNaNS3kD0-iRknsZbJ2eZFERb81LLNz1MYx1S0iC3FjNPNKIInc3FCFad0/s596/Edith%20Kemp%20Welch%20-%20Recruitment%20Poster%20Remember%20Scarborough%20Enlist%20Now%20pub%201914%20%20-%20(MeisterDrucke-647272).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="596" data-original-width="400" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1UWzKp2iRWiwCpc5dGtNNwP_DUeIBaTRQ4KLW3QRU_Cxx5cuWrWQEndmWaKeHj6jaPv8vmOAZHDMwOrSHOgre_QanHSnUr-u0Zmuqq7rk-yJDeHRZHV1myn6UKVaGmQZNaNS3kD0-iRknsZbJ2eZFERb81LLNz1MYx1S0iC3FjNPNKIInc3FCFad0/s320/Edith%20Kemp%20Welch%20-%20Recruitment%20Poster%20Remember%20Scarborough%20Enlist%20Now%20pub%201914%20%20-%20(MeisterDrucke-647272).jpg" width="215" /></a></div><br /><p>The Raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby on 16 December 1914 was an attack by the Imperial German Navy on the British ports of Scarborough, Hartlepool, West Hartlepool and Whitby. The bombardments caused hundreds of civilian casualties and resulted in public outrage in Britain against the German Navy for the raid and the Royal Navy for failing to prevent it.</p><div><br /></div>Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13956422195610297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1117949030117695917.post-15358125439505074892023-03-09T05:38:00.000-08:002023-03-09T05:38:09.681-08:00Harry Epworth Allen, MM (1894 - 1958) – British artist<p>Harry Epworth Allen was born in Broomhall, Sheffield, UK on 27th November 1894. His parents were Henry Allen, a steel mark maker, and his wife Elizabeth Epwroth Allen, nee Blacktin.</p><p>Educated at King Edward VII School in Sheffield, when he left school, Harry started work as a clerk in the steel works where his fther worked. </p><p>Harry began to study art at Sheffield Technical School of Art in 1912. </p><p><br /></p><p>During the First World War, Harry enlisted on 29th October 1915 as a Gunner with the Royal Garrison Artillery and in June 1916 his Regiment was posted to the Western Front. Harry was awarded a Military Medal in 1917 for conspicuous gallantry. He was seriously wounded.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sources: Liss Llewellyn Fine Art, Find my Past,</p><p>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Epworth_Allen</p><p> </p>Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13956422195610297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1117949030117695917.post-71643633947551685492022-12-05T09:28:00.000-08:002022-12-05T09:28:05.176-08:00 Leslie Fraser Standish Hore, MC, MiD (1870 - 1935) - artist <p style="text-align: center;"><b><i>With thanks to Catherine Avak for finding this artist for us</i></b></p><div><div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheNUMfmljvN3DRhfs-4zn9x9e01xSfq4jiKxwpkQlBnusj_xT0SGkNagK_r0hGSA-vfLFWvlkcTcE6x6bTr8inTcS60yaXrD4i0GHXUCfnyiFKvwN6aSm8shElTZPekZ0Ecbnzt9vhQZpuRzaGNyvxti7aCYJpT4bX9Kwwh99ZsyiahQrmrhuNrR9p/s1290/%E2%80%9CEarly%20Morning%20Gallipoli%E2%80%9D%20Suvla%20Bay%20by%20Captain%20Leslie%20Hore.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="993" data-original-width="1290" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheNUMfmljvN3DRhfs-4zn9x9e01xSfq4jiKxwpkQlBnusj_xT0SGkNagK_r0hGSA-vfLFWvlkcTcE6x6bTr8inTcS60yaXrD4i0GHXUCfnyiFKvwN6aSm8shElTZPekZ0Ecbnzt9vhQZpuRzaGNyvxti7aCYJpT4bX9Kwwh99ZsyiahQrmrhuNrR9p/s320/%E2%80%9CEarly%20Morning%20Gallipoli%E2%80%9D%20Suvla%20Bay%20by%20Captain%20Leslie%20Hore.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Early Morning, Suvla Bay, Oct. 1915"</td></tr></tbody></table>Born in Murree, Bengal, India on 5th August 1870, Leslie was educated in England before going up to Oxford University, where he studied law in Corpus Christi College. He became a barrister and solicitor. In 1895, Leslie travelled to Tasmania. He married Emily Josephine Lacy in Hobart, Tasmania on 30th March 1896. The couple lived in Davey Street, Denison, South Hobart.</div><div><br /></div><div>Leslie joined the AIF 8th Australian Light Horse Regiment with the rank of Captain in Gallipoli on 26th May 1915. Wounded during the battle of the Nek on 7th August 1915, by then Major Hore, he rejoined his unit on the 28th September 1915.</div><div><br /></div><div>Leslie then accepted the post of Brigade Machine Gun Officer of the 6th Infantry Brigade in France.</div><div><br /></div><div>Leslie was awarded the Military Cross on 18th June 1916 at Pozieres. His final rank was Temporary Lieutenant Colonel with the Australian Machine Gun Corps. On 7th November 1917, Leslie was Mentioned in Despatches. He returned to Tasmania in February 1919.</div><div><br /></div><div>Leslie died in Kavieng district of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea on 1st September 1935. His occupation was listed as planter.</div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR5y7uE6gJjL9azlhudWOKHYGyhlIKrQeLxz7TmxlnA0mh2wolRWf5URyMF4oU9_u0ooVw8bFCIFn01M5Ynl4Q31E8hbf_5SIj9uEqLsQczb659lm65-cAiVDDJzS_5Uq_zs4WYqSoAuGa5MgzOLeK_4cVBecDs6_IbdYN2Lt4zAJDCxRoWBIuZwc7/s960/Citation%20for%20Hore%20medal.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="585" data-original-width="960" height="195" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR5y7uE6gJjL9azlhudWOKHYGyhlIKrQeLxz7TmxlnA0mh2wolRWf5URyMF4oU9_u0ooVw8bFCIFn01M5Ynl4Q31E8hbf_5SIj9uEqLsQczb659lm65-cAiVDDJzS_5Uq_zs4WYqSoAuGa5MgzOLeK_4cVBecDs6_IbdYN2Lt4zAJDCxRoWBIuZwc7/s320/Citation%20for%20Hore%20medal.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Citation for Leslie's medal<br /><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br />Catherine Avak posted the above image on Facebook - <div><br /></div><div>Rupert Brooke Remembered added a new photo to the album World War I.</div><div>“Early Morning Gallipoli” Suvla Bay October 1915” by Captain Leslie Hore</div><div><br /></div><div>and also on the Artists of the First World War Facebook page.</div><div><br /></div><div>Catherine says: "You can find more drawings of the Gallipoli campaign, which I found to have more immediacy than any photographs I’ve seen, as well as further information about the artist at": https://artsandculture.google.com/story/fgXB7Y5BQBwHJg</div><div><br /></div><div>The Battle of the Nek (Turkish: Kılıçbayır Muharebesi) took place on 7th August 1915, during the Gallipoli campaign of The First World War. "The Nek" was a narrow stretch of ridge on the Gallipoli Peninsula. The name derives from the Afrikaans word for a "mountain pass" but the terrain itself was a perfect bottleneck and easy to defend, as demonstrated during an Ottoman attack in June. It connected Australian and New Zealand trenches on the ridge known as "Russell's Top" to the knoll called "Baby 700" on which the Ottoman defenders were entrenched.</div><div><br /></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div>Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13956422195610297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1117949030117695917.post-50923773454351502242022-12-04T05:22:00.005-08:002022-12-04T05:22:40.008-08:00Sir Herbert Edward Read, DSO, MC, Mentioned in Despatches (1893 – 1968) – British soldier poet, artist, art historian, literary critic and philosopher. <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfaq8vgPczF35ANnnYxh5MbFi7Rw98TANnu6MJixv4jaua53l8SmNvoh0ABsXpa8jwLMoxGHftQpxH8gfm5Z0stgw4VAFFZrNWhKKdNsa7jtOac5LzKZIWd3AUVqIqwZhi8efYkrGnO1Yw5U_iFkwJzr-uPaAdKhjxLQgvXtzejZ9FIb0zrDfHOwYH/s848/Herbert-Read%20OldSoldier.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="848" data-original-width="524" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfaq8vgPczF35ANnnYxh5MbFi7Rw98TANnu6MJixv4jaua53l8SmNvoh0ABsXpa8jwLMoxGHftQpxH8gfm5Z0stgw4VAFFZrNWhKKdNsa7jtOac5LzKZIWd3AUVqIqwZhi8efYkrGnO1Yw5U_iFkwJzr-uPaAdKhjxLQgvXtzejZ9FIb0zrDfHOwYH/s320/Herbert-Read%20OldSoldier.jpg" width="198" /></a></div>"An Old Soldier" by Herbert Read.<br />Herbert was born in Kirbymoorside, North Riding of Yorkshire, UK on 4th December 1893. His parents were Herbert Edward Read, a farmer, and his wife, Eliza, nee Strickland. <p></p><p>Herbert was studying at the University of Leeds when the First World War began. He was commissioned in January 1915 into the Green Howards Regiment and was awarded the Military Cross in 1917 and the Distinguished Service Order in 1918. His final rank was Captain.</p><p>During the First World War, Herbert served in France. He also founded the magazine “Arts & Letters” with Frank Rutter.</p><p>Knighted in 1953 "for services to literature", Herbert died on 12th June 1968</p><p>On 11th November 1985, Herbert Read was among 16 of the Great War poets commemorated on a slate stone unveiled in Westminster Abbey in London, UK. The area is known as Poet's Corner.</p><p>The Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment), frequently known as the Yorkshire Regiment until the 1920s, was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, in the King's Division. Raised in 1688, it served under various titles until it was amalgamated with the Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire and the Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding), all Yorkshire-based regiments in the King's Division, to form the Yorkshire Regiment (14th/15th, 19th and 33rd/76th Foot) on 6 June 2006.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGN4lUTeAbmLKzrg9kVVB8GsFmQsz7OjUCL74-N0StIilvSVbM2kXSh8XnEI75usJA6H-esfR5FRO8AgEoWa0fi3AfHkTsmxg3_WayhnyKH0CJHQq_tSo9Zu1Owgyaf-14Xz77TTxujWTXnEO_CciSwD1PyAro9iFBCN_byg7WD8kcAnCf1bEXFZQR/s246/Green%20Howards%20Cap%20Badge.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="246" data-original-width="180" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGN4lUTeAbmLKzrg9kVVB8GsFmQsz7OjUCL74-N0StIilvSVbM2kXSh8XnEI75usJA6H-esfR5FRO8AgEoWa0fi3AfHkTsmxg3_WayhnyKH0CJHQq_tSo9Zu1Owgyaf-14Xz77TTxujWTXnEO_CciSwD1PyAro9iFBCN_byg7WD8kcAnCf1bEXFZQR/s1600/Green%20Howards%20Cap%20Badge.jpg" width="180" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Green Howards Cap Badge</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></p><div><br /></div>Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13956422195610297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1117949030117695917.post-90768045782801932092022-11-15T10:53:00.000-08:002022-11-15T10:53:17.882-08:00 Charles Constantin Joseph Hoffbauer (1875 – 1957) – French-born American artist <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8un8mQjqPTM-6XzyqaBSeEv9PkiDt-CQDefifW1tAFKr1exO4n6be_l_TjBOw2WKI6gCvDEAT3Vmtiy4DFKV3skDeqZVsD6Ue5HLyC-sFB-yV_Mydl5noS2fLLntGch24NMTNTOOECPfqE2-7M3i2UOvJaaOPQC7MKtqnX2GaE45IPpjWtJvCWTY0/s180/Charles%20Hoffbauer.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="145" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8un8mQjqPTM-6XzyqaBSeEv9PkiDt-CQDefifW1tAFKr1exO4n6be_l_TjBOw2WKI6gCvDEAT3Vmtiy4DFKV3skDeqZVsD6Ue5HLyC-sFB-yV_Mydl5noS2fLLntGch24NMTNTOOECPfqE2-7M3i2UOvJaaOPQC7MKtqnX2GaE45IPpjWtJvCWTY0/s1600/Charles%20Hoffbauer.jpeg" width="145" /></a></div>Charles Hoffbauer was born in Paris. His parents, Féodor Hubert Hoffbauer, a well-known archeologist, architect and artist, and Marie Clemence Belloc Hoffbauer, were from Alsace. Following his initial education in French schools, Charles attended the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris for three years.<p></p><p>Charles first arrived in the United States in New York City on 21st December 1909. His friend and fellow artist Charles Dana Gibson met him as he arrived and helped establish Hoffbauer in the New York art community. On 8th August 1914, he returned to France and, although he had met his military service obligations, he was a Reservist in the French Army. He enlised in the 274th Infantry Regiment at a Private. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPPwh607cDKx85LnBzH_AYnWbfE9RQi-SBG7IVWgueVeqOaonlEh41heBLX5AKJY4ThgVtbMNaZ-9qn-AqG9Z0rsnGH0xv41we0DZ3dcej8PzjSTs57f2_6i9glJYzJe7QD_BJUUVlz7u60-keB3_Xz39OsmIzwndpddlc1A86MLcNtfjPPA0bl3Sz/s706/German%20Prisoners%20Somme%201916%20Hoffbauer.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="522" data-original-width="706" height="237" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPPwh607cDKx85LnBzH_AYnWbfE9RQi-SBG7IVWgueVeqOaonlEh41heBLX5AKJY4ThgVtbMNaZ-9qn-AqG9Z0rsnGH0xv41we0DZ3dcej8PzjSTs57f2_6i9glJYzJe7QD_BJUUVlz7u60-keB3_Xz39OsmIzwndpddlc1A86MLcNtfjPPA0bl3Sz/s320/German%20Prisoners%20Somme%201916%20Hoffbauer.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">German Prisoners of War, Somme, 1916<br />by Charles Hoffbauer</td></tr></tbody></table><p>While in the trenches, Charles wrote an article for Leslie’s "Illustrated Weekly", entitled “Horrors of Trench Life in France.” He served as an official war artist and also worked as a liaison officer between the Camouflage Section of his unit and the American camouflage unit. He was promoted to the rank of Sergeant and was awarded the Croix de Guerre for bravery during the Battle of the Somme.</p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdBnrYJuE85HCcDhzOQzQoHKPxmUdwwt1WyCq9kLBp7eJHQEAOFs0-N_heDBPZjTtLf4eghdFL2Nt0Z5zYtnW3i1A5Ie3stdQDLrwghOYrCLXw4jV_XZp4zS2w_JcfG38p_JQoRJjmzZ8MfEEE-LKNgnbjZIQsehi6DLt6__UamLpKxNi4S08GROB9/s211/Leslie's%20Weekly%20cover.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="211" data-original-width="210" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdBnrYJuE85HCcDhzOQzQoHKPxmUdwwt1WyCq9kLBp7eJHQEAOFs0-N_heDBPZjTtLf4eghdFL2Nt0Z5zYtnW3i1A5Ie3stdQDLrwghOYrCLXw4jV_XZp4zS2w_JcfG38p_JQoRJjmzZ8MfEEE-LKNgnbjZIQsehi6DLt6__UamLpKxNi4S08GROB9/s1600/Leslie's%20Weekly%20cover.jpeg" width="210" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">15 February 1917 - <br />J. M. Flagg" I Want You" cover.</td></tr></tbody></table><p>Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, later renamed Leslie's Weekly, was an American illustrated literary and news magazine founded in 1855 and published until 1922. It was one of several magazines started by publisher and illustrator Frank Leslie. </p><p>Throughout its existence, the weekly provided illustrations and reports — first with wood engravings and daguerreotypes, later with more advanced forms of photography — of wars from John Brown's raid at Harpers Ferry and the Civil War until the Spanish–American War and the First World War.</p><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13956422195610297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1117949030117695917.post-44729013832652936532022-10-15T03:08:00.000-07:002022-10-15T03:08:02.322-07:00 e.e. cummings (1894 – 1962) – American playwright, poet, artist and writer<p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvtmsDqBdNkfANUQPXxcWzLMfgc8TYO2LKpQKMXPNaijTcDfc4ZPPDrPF_JfdFW79k4FBjGB-hmQ8zMN1jF30MdlVATGN25Nhbr6mFFyH3MIClPtk8CXH1aZJbbn3tJNcrJOjvdW-ej7wOwsqd79nGs-lqIJ-Mjssg8vAPlqQ85rcLzDnN1G93iaQ5/s220/e%20e%20cummings%20self%20portrait%20sketch%201920.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="220" data-original-width="170" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvtmsDqBdNkfANUQPXxcWzLMfgc8TYO2LKpQKMXPNaijTcDfc4ZPPDrPF_JfdFW79k4FBjGB-hmQ8zMN1jF30MdlVATGN25Nhbr6mFFyH3MIClPtk8CXH1aZJbbn3tJNcrJOjvdW-ej7wOwsqd79nGs-lqIJ-Mjssg8vAPlqQ85rcLzDnN1G93iaQ5/w154-h200/e%20e%20cummings%20self%20portrait%20sketch%201920.jpg" width="154" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Self portrait 1920</td></tr></tbody></table> Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA on 14th October 1894, Edward Estlin Cummings attended Harvard University and graduated with a B.A.. in 1915 and an M.A. in 1916. </p><p> Edward served as a volunteer ambulance driver in France with the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps, American Red Cross, during The First World War. Edward was imprisoned for three months in a French detention centre, having been mistaken as a spy. He went on to serve in the United States Army (1918-1919), then studied art in Paris (1920-1924).</p><div> e.e. cummings was his preferred style of writing his name.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgrc1HN8PUenT-PXyw_IPDgbFhGRUZXiNDSPP7e7fUfcUHuaWFWh-HfvgzI8_PfQp58X2lelbHBmsnW2K2k4d_RG-yT5X1yDC7rRd_m9SqV_sFJDgQhNZJ7xZNXe92msslBX7dITzE6JcfYZZu-YQQHZ6iq5EIfxKuMeIzL5WL4xFYRrbkt7rlKDlE/s260/Dark%20coloured%20landscape%20e%20e%20cummings.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="260" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgrc1HN8PUenT-PXyw_IPDgbFhGRUZXiNDSPP7e7fUfcUHuaWFWh-HfvgzI8_PfQp58X2lelbHBmsnW2K2k4d_RG-yT5X1yDC7rRd_m9SqV_sFJDgQhNZJ7xZNXe92msslBX7dITzE6JcfYZZu-YQQHZ6iq5EIfxKuMeIzL5WL4xFYRrbkt7rlKDlE/w320-h239/Dark%20coloured%20landscape%20e%20e%20cummings.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dark coloured landscape<br />e.e. cummings </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div>Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13956422195610297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1117949030117695917.post-24410468047173536772022-10-14T10:41:00.001-07:002022-10-14T10:41:19.686-07:00Christopher Wyndham Hughes MC (1881-1961) – British artist and teacher<p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><i>With thanks to Josie Holford for the discovery of this artist</i></b></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLv8AIdHEAsC4Ty7cBT3DuJOB_tKR73mUSkO6Qh7iExfXB0DdqtB034fxqKflXonASoqv5anV5pxoyMW2sflbsOHEd-e2zRvGiSB70y_TUPknbKYsyNQToRu6--tBp7EOeny_vc55N42JEXBvdZxm7Pbh4Qphk_8EXZhKHXpSO8rI0KfUQuHROWmTX/s225/Entrance%20to%20Sienna%20Cathedral%20Christopher%20Wyndham%20Hughes.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLv8AIdHEAsC4Ty7cBT3DuJOB_tKR73mUSkO6Qh7iExfXB0DdqtB034fxqKflXonASoqv5anV5pxoyMW2sflbsOHEd-e2zRvGiSB70y_TUPknbKYsyNQToRu6--tBp7EOeny_vc55N42JEXBvdZxm7Pbh4Qphk_8EXZhKHXpSO8rI0KfUQuHROWmTX/s1600/Entrance%20to%20Sienna%20Cathedral%20Christopher%20Wyndham%20Hughes.jpeg" width="225" /></a></div>Born in St Albans, Hertfordshire UK, on 19th June 1881, Christopher’s parents were Wyndham Hope Hughes, an artist, and his wife, Eveline Constance Marie Hughes, nee Pinhorne. Christopher had a sister – Mary H. Hughes - born in 1878. The children’s mother died in 1885. <p></p><p>Christopher was taught painting by his father, Wyndham Hughes, who was an expert in stained glass and ecclesiastical art. In 1904, Christopher married Edith Hereford Wynne Willson in Witney, Oxfordshire. </p><p>During the First World War, Christopher served as a Captain in the 7th Battalion Wiltshire Regiment and was awarded the Military Cross in 1917 while serving as a Temporary Captain. With the rank of Major when he left the Army, Christopher served in the Officers Training Corps (OTC) at Marlborough College in Wiltshire, where he taught art from the 1920s – 1940s. His final rank was Colonel. </p><p>Christopher died on 12th January 1961 in Marlborough, Wiltshire. Probate was granted to Ursula Wyndham Simeon.</p><p>Josie Holford's website is https://www.josieholford.com/sorley/</p><p>Artwork by Christopher Wyndham Hughes MC - Entrance to Sienna Cathedral</p><p> have not been able to find any WW1 artwork or a portrait of Christopher. If you can help please get in touch.</p><p><br /></p>Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13956422195610297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1117949030117695917.post-4945773899609087202022-09-22T10:00:00.006-07:002022-09-22T10:03:12.984-07:00John Hassall RI (1868 - 1948) - British artist <p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimhecpXt48-WCzAbI5ZPpo9t4uzVQmscZzv-dmedeet3rUYwKHCcnQJnSpadJo83knxUSmmi-0yRV12dL0Kdf-Ol9_UZPZuncXd0hPfv39M4nUV7Fe8V9rIJNlpsqm5A3Ucxl8HPudXfkKpiCc8Etx3mna0ML3XYjbBte9JgVGqfeotmCPvN3aw280/s92/John%20Hassall%20sketching%20at%20a%20Red%20Cross%20Fund%20raising%20event%201918.jpeg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="92" data-original-width="92" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimhecpXt48-WCzAbI5ZPpo9t4uzVQmscZzv-dmedeet3rUYwKHCcnQJnSpadJo83knxUSmmi-0yRV12dL0Kdf-Ol9_UZPZuncXd0hPfv39M4nUV7Fe8V9rIJNlpsqm5A3Ucxl8HPudXfkKpiCc8Etx3mna0ML3XYjbBte9JgVGqfeotmCPvN3aw280/w200-h200/John%20Hassall%20sketching%20at%20a%20Red%20Cross%20Fund%20raising%20event%201918.jpeg" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sketching at a Red<br />Cross fund raiser 1918</td></tr></tbody></table>Born in Walmer, Kent, UK on 21st May 1868, John's parents were Christopher Clarke Hassell a Royal Naval Officer,. and his wife, Louisa Sparkes. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Educated in Worthing at Newton Abbot College before going on to Neuenheim College, Heidelberg, Germany, John emigrated to Canada with his brother Owen in 1888, after failing to gain entry to Sandhurst Military Academy . He returned to London two years later when he had drawings accepted by the “Graphic” a British weekly illustrated newspaper. At the suggestion of Dudley Hardy (along with Cecil Aldin, a lifelong friend), he went to study art in Antwerp and Paris. During that period he was influenced by the famous poster artist Alphonse Mucha.</div><p></p><p><br /></p><p>In 1895 John began working for David Allen & Sons designing advertisements, which developed into a 50-year career. He also produced a large number of volumes of fairy tales and nursery rhymes. </p><p>In 1900 he opened his own New Art School and School of Poster Design, in Kensington, but the school had to close at the outbreak of the First World War.</p><p>Examples of John Hassell's WW1 work:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBRgwXQVAUypNSGfKMTaw5eDMeU2oLGdecHHNV9iSxqnE1KPLyPIir0Oyyj7ecbZ3-xMaFvTFydCVYnsQtlWAllFBP5vErSL79GZszObQWebzaF5D3KpACqIdP_3bAHofxHmcTvj9DN8LsnLIlgVHDZ35nocj_XOZjz6cZ0ItIqCqHYGvUEd7k-Iun/s500/john-hassall-Belgian-Canal%20Boat%20Fund%20poster.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="330" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBRgwXQVAUypNSGfKMTaw5eDMeU2oLGdecHHNV9iSxqnE1KPLyPIir0Oyyj7ecbZ3-xMaFvTFydCVYnsQtlWAllFBP5vErSL79GZszObQWebzaF5D3KpACqIdP_3bAHofxHmcTvj9DN8LsnLIlgVHDZ35nocj_XOZjz6cZ0ItIqCqHYGvUEd7k-Iun/s320/john-hassall-Belgian-Canal%20Boat%20Fund%20poster.jpg" width="211" /></a></div>A poster urging people to help Belgium.<br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9BMGZdlQrwuxc0_N_mLbcTgUSsbV0N1Bz8U5x0P6H1fSfkKrB79SmhZ3-O5R1e0-cl_s78hFp7T3WcGf-1EGSCxT5nuzYpbhFkOS0xvl2iDXN8ab93VpNlqS_9YaSYSrx9pAjfcVkdMQQkShv2llXC_E7Xae2SsKlptfhld0Ng5DWV8Bfd7vepaYd/s800/A%20Tank%20in%20Action%20by%20John%20Hassall.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="530" data-original-width="800" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9BMGZdlQrwuxc0_N_mLbcTgUSsbV0N1Bz8U5x0P6H1fSfkKrB79SmhZ3-O5R1e0-cl_s78hFp7T3WcGf-1EGSCxT5nuzYpbhFkOS0xvl2iDXN8ab93VpNlqS_9YaSYSrx9pAjfcVkdMQQkShv2llXC_E7Xae2SsKlptfhld0Ng5DWV8Bfd7vepaYd/s320/A%20Tank%20in%20Action%20by%20John%20Hassall.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A Tank in Action<br />Now in the British Tank Museum </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div>Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13956422195610297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1117949030117695917.post-72578639427618733362022-09-19T08:43:00.002-07:002022-09-19T08:43:30.793-07:00Arthur Radclyffe Dugmore (1870–1955) - Welsh-born American artist <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBQTC9MoXpj-3_Xt9CoNMJ63lfSLz2aKEbb6bTU5uw-tiqnvCAqK6m5XU7ZJM4XTbtZN-sdAfaNCmz83BN3_nTAK6-Fd9nXk8L0Dpv_RukEWp75Thhby_MqYvMJ4ro-sMJ_CrD5fT4C-Dtj1Up6NpcFilJoZNF1_i10OEDg99YfYr6qlK-HYiQAu0O/s272/Arthur%20Radclyffe%20Dugmore.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="272" data-original-width="185" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBQTC9MoXpj-3_Xt9CoNMJ63lfSLz2aKEbb6bTU5uw-tiqnvCAqK6m5XU7ZJM4XTbtZN-sdAfaNCmz83BN3_nTAK6-Fd9nXk8L0Dpv_RukEWp75Thhby_MqYvMJ4ro-sMJ_CrD5fT4C-Dtj1Up6NpcFilJoZNF1_i10OEDg99YfYr6qlK-HYiQAu0O/s1600/Arthur%20Radclyffe%20Dugmore.jpeg" width="185" /></a></div>Arthur was born on 25th December 1870 in Bodalog, near Betws-y-Coed, Wales, the second son of Captain Francis Sandys Dugmore and his wife, Emily Evelyn, a daughter of William Brougham, 2nd Baron Brougham and Vaux. His father served in The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada before his birth, and later in the 64th Regiment of Foot. <p></p><p>Educated at Elizabeth College, Guernsey, and later in Kadıköy and Bournabat (in modern day Turkey), Arthur went on to study art at the Instituto di Belle Arti in Naples, Italy and went to America in 1889. In 1901 he married Henrietta Louise Watkins, and the couple had three children.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Forty two years old when the First World War began, as a civilian photographer Arthur travelled to the Western Front and began recording with his cine camera, as the Belgian army attempted in vain to stem the advance of the German Army. </p><p>Influential friends helped Arthur "to obtain a commission in an infantry regiment — the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry" -The 'Tykes'. Arthur served in the trenches during the period leading up to the First Battle of the Somme but before the Battle he was gassed and unfit for duty. He wrote from the front lines during this period describing trench warfare, the Somme attack and its consequences and aftermath. </p><p>Arthur recorded his WW1 eye-witness experiences in a book entitled “When the Somme Ran Red: The Experiences of an Officer of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry During the First World War.”</p><p>Arthur later created a number of paintings based on his recollections of experiences on the Somme.</p><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7lkbmHot9HPHvRAZrrA8VB-AuJKloboBS425gbCVZJzY1-1QLOL_mv3a7CkHsO_udF5NFMFXgDHlsCPDUBmjM1Uogqfta3pqyl3W9ONUIBDUsMHtjlOgvgz70J23p7Rqll8YQIcIeCE_XczMzWAK_p5p8VXmevWq5yGHPSVSrGD3JrYfPIBmHFIkp/s1200/Troops%20Going%20over%20the%20Top,%20First%20World%20War%20Battle%20of%20the%20Somme%20by%20Arthur%20Radclyffe%20Dugmore%20(1870%E2%80%931955).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="665" data-original-width="1200" height="177" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7lkbmHot9HPHvRAZrrA8VB-AuJKloboBS425gbCVZJzY1-1QLOL_mv3a7CkHsO_udF5NFMFXgDHlsCPDUBmjM1Uogqfta3pqyl3W9ONUIBDUsMHtjlOgvgz70J23p7Rqll8YQIcIeCE_XczMzWAK_p5p8VXmevWq5yGHPSVSrGD3JrYfPIBmHFIkp/s320/Troops%20Going%20over%20the%20Top,%20First%20World%20War%20Battle%20of%20the%20Somme%20by%20Arthur%20Radclyffe%20Dugmore%20(1870%E2%80%931955).jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Troops Going over the Top, First World War (Battle of the Somme)</span></td></tr></tbody></table> Arthur Radclyffe Dugmore (1870–1955) Painting from York Castle Museum<div><br /></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div><br /></div>Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13956422195610297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1117949030117695917.post-63231532282388079972022-09-08T09:16:00.007-07:002022-09-08T09:19:10.896-07:00Henry Taylor Lamb MC RA (1883 – 1960) <p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA9mNczR7Y6LfEiBxtzAZAssh3qA7NAOKhMMMbv55eG60VI_yVW2vN03CstwdTZGr4l37t2WmZGxCniJtAbu4YAneOuCqZ0OCeNxVyKhDX5iqmfSuk1HKSeDjCZgmZ5I0xe4zGo1ZzPKUbSOjdeWPcGnlnX-lQzxpqgCOh509Ue9R2bxbQ-o9cIJqz/s800/Henry%20Lamb%20portrait.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="678" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA9mNczR7Y6LfEiBxtzAZAssh3qA7NAOKhMMMbv55eG60VI_yVW2vN03CstwdTZGr4l37t2WmZGxCniJtAbu4YAneOuCqZ0OCeNxVyKhDX5iqmfSuk1HKSeDjCZgmZ5I0xe4zGo1ZzPKUbSOjdeWPcGnlnX-lQzxpqgCOh509Ue9R2bxbQ-o9cIJqz/s320/Henry%20Lamb%20portrait.jpg" width="271" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Henry Lamb self portrait</td></tr></tbody></table>Henry Lamb was born in Adelaide, Australia, on 21st June 1883. He was the son of Sir Horace Lamb FRS, professor of mathematics at Adelaide University. When Sir Horace was appointed to the Chair of Mathematics at the Victoria University of Manchester in 1885, the family moved back to England. <p></p><p>Henry was educated at Manchester Grammar School, before studying medicine at Manchester University Medical School and Guy's Hospital in London. He abandoned his medical studies in 1906 to study painting at the Chelsea School of Art, which, at that time, was run by William Orpen and Augustus John. </p><p>In 1907, Henry went to Paris to study at the Académie de La Palette - an art academy where stidemts were taught by artists Jean Metzinger, André Dunoyer de Segonzac and Henri Le Fauconnier.</p><p>When war broke out in 1914, Henry returned to his medical studies and qualified as a doctor at Guy's Hospital. He saw active service in the First World War in the Royal Army Medical Corps as a battalion medical officer with the 5th Battalion, The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers and was awarded the Military Cross. </p><p>Henry served in Palestine and on the Western Front and was badly gassed not long before the end of the war. In February 1918, before he was demobilised, Henry was approached by British War Memorials Committee of the Ministry of Information to produce a large painting for a proposed national Hall of Remembrance. After he was demobilised in March 1919, Lamb began work on the painting, "Irish Troops in the Judaean Hills Surprised by a Turkish Bombardment", which is now in the Imperial War Museum. </p><p>Henry died on 8th October 1960.</p><p>Two of his paintings are: Advanced Dressing Station on the Struma in 1916, 1921 </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis25d767Wo39tJD661xLUpIeqLJkJ_MRT_G1uNVC7_6KPFqn-FJywM3-TCPkLQ7AgLoBlB2WvD4oRLYIqcScRi20pEVaSSvTec7b_dlSQV4So5kgmQw3j_KnWTIBXy3bdzOYkfEzqoyHtaUIx2M2QlN_tGw0z6CZjbBBUG4thL59hhIYcl76eHqikh/s725/henry-lamb-advanced-dressing-station-on-the-struma-1916-1921.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="630" data-original-width="725" height="278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis25d767Wo39tJD661xLUpIeqLJkJ_MRT_G1uNVC7_6KPFqn-FJywM3-TCPkLQ7AgLoBlB2WvD4oRLYIqcScRi20pEVaSSvTec7b_dlSQV4So5kgmQw3j_KnWTIBXy3bdzOYkfEzqoyHtaUIx2M2QlN_tGw0z6CZjbBBUG4thL59hhIYcl76eHqikh/s320/henry-lamb-advanced-dressing-station-on-the-struma-1916-1921.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>and</p><p>Irish Troops in the Judaean Hills Surprised by a Turkish Bombardment (1919), (Art.IWM ART 2746)</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgElrp6KfrNUayEB8ZYJjyfhk6Eu_6m9mQ2jeishCcc5pAoQpI4IpUQowLX9T2iRDPqF_37UQwB45wcc2Mkp1nkG230RGJhErQwqrmPLzPvfG27X-7dAcSfAZ2dVilxItC2bO-jQjeZVrHzIVSfez6FlTUDAN57H4Tz7YliXxz3NPS1dw63HxeYY3g3/s1024/Irish_Troops_in_the_Judaean_Hills_Surprised_by_a_Turkish_Bombardment,_1919_Art.IWMART2746%20Henry%20Taylor%20Lamb%20MC.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="863" data-original-width="1024" height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgElrp6KfrNUayEB8ZYJjyfhk6Eu_6m9mQ2jeishCcc5pAoQpI4IpUQowLX9T2iRDPqF_37UQwB45wcc2Mkp1nkG230RGJhErQwqrmPLzPvfG27X-7dAcSfAZ2dVilxItC2bO-jQjeZVrHzIVSfez6FlTUDAN57H4Tz7YliXxz3NPS1dw63HxeYY3g3/s320/Irish_Troops_in_the_Judaean_Hills_Surprised_by_a_Turkish_Bombardment,_1919_Art.IWMART2746%20Henry%20Taylor%20Lamb%20MC.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><i>With thanks to AC Benus for finding this artist for us.</i></b></p><div><br /></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13956422195610297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1117949030117695917.post-7099611219634713132022-09-04T08:53:00.003-07:002022-09-04T08:53:28.925-07:00 "Parade of the Dead" by Georges Bertin Scott (1873 - 1943) - French artist and war correspondent <p> "Parade of the Dead" by Georges Bertin Scott (10 June 1873 – 10 January 1943) - a French war correspondent and illustrator for the French magazine "L'Illustration". With thanks to Ciarán Conlan for finding this image and to to Seosamh McGabhann who suggested I look up the poem by Robert Service entitled “The March of the Dead” to accompany this image.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2HXZyM2PKsyfR3oVkeKv6DoFcyjdZYsjBWv30FZTIcMOgWsmBYwGDdOp4sjP84iez2bgVwiOGST0n6UvNEQBpMeOuF_IuFDeidNwqFlYwVhcWcWR-tlatLO4cULiK7XQ1x0jBr5t6qGrAPp-Nf7uZ1aWtN9yDZBH3E9SEkDwui79QyGHxBm1UbFjE/s843/Parade%20of%20the%20Dead%20by%20Georges%20Bertin%20Scott.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="826" data-original-width="843" height="393" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2HXZyM2PKsyfR3oVkeKv6DoFcyjdZYsjBWv30FZTIcMOgWsmBYwGDdOp4sjP84iez2bgVwiOGST0n6UvNEQBpMeOuF_IuFDeidNwqFlYwVhcWcWR-tlatLO4cULiK7XQ1x0jBr5t6qGrAPp-Nf7uZ1aWtN9yDZBH3E9SEkDwui79QyGHxBm1UbFjE/w400-h393/Parade%20of%20the%20Dead%20by%20Georges%20Bertin%20Scott.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p>"The March of the Dead" by Robert Service </p><p><br /></p><p> The cruel war was over -- oh, the triumph was so sweet!</p><p> We watched the troops returning, through our tears;</p><p> There was triumph, triumph, triumph down the scarlet glittering street,</p><p> And you scarce could hear the music for the cheers.</p><p> And you scarce could see the house-tops for the flags that flew between;</p><p> The bells were pealing madly to the sky;</p><p> And everyone was shouting for the Soldiers of the Queen,</p><p> And the glory of an age was passing by.</p><p><br /></p><p> And then there came a shadow, swift and sudden, dark and drear;</p><p> The bells were silent, not an echo stirred.</p><p> The flags were drooping sullenly, the men forgot to cheer;</p><p> We waited, and we never spoke a word.</p><p> The sky grew darker, darker, till from out the gloomy rack</p><p> There came a voice that checked the heart with dread:</p><p> "Tear down, tear down your bunting now, and hang up sable black;</p><p> They are coming -- it's the Army of the Dead."</p><p><br /></p><p> They were coming, they were coming, gaunt and ghastly, sad and slow;</p><p> They were coming, all the crimson wrecks of pride;</p><p> With faces seared, and cheeks red smeared, and haunting eyes of woe,</p><p> And clotted holes the khaki couldn't hide.</p><p> Oh, the clammy brow of anguish! the livid, foam-flecked lips!</p><p> The reeling ranks of ruin swept along!</p><p> The limb that trailed, the hand that failed, the bloody finger tips!</p><p> And oh, the dreary rhythm of their song!</p><p><br /></p><p> "They left us on the veldt-side, but we felt we couldn't stop</p><p> On this, our England's crowning festal day;</p><p> We're the men of Magersfontein, we're the men of Spion Kop,</p><p> Colenso -- we're the men who had to pay.</p><p> We're the men who paid the blood-price. Shall the grave be all our gain?</p><p> You owe us. Long and heavy is the score.</p><p> Then cheer us for our glory now, and cheer us for our pain,</p><p> And cheer us as ye never cheered before."</p><p><br /></p><p> The folks were white and stricken, and each tongue seemed weighted with lead;</p><p> Each heart was clutched in hollow hand of ice;</p><p> And every eye was staring at the horror of the dead,</p><p> The pity of the men who paid the price.</p><p> They were come, were come to mock us, in the first flush of our peace;</p><p> Through writhing lips their teeth were all agleam;</p><p> They were coming in their thousands -- oh, would they never cease!</p><p> I closed my eyes, and then -- it was a dream.</p><p><br /></p><p> There was triumph, triumph, triumph down the scarlet gleaming street;</p><p> The town was mad; a man was like a boy.</p><p> A thousand flags were flaming where the sky and city meet;</p><p> A thousand bells were thundering the joy.</p><p> There was music, mirth and sunshine; but some eyes shone with regret;</p><p> And while we stun with cheers our homing braves,</p><p> O God, in Thy great mercy, let us nevermore forget</p><p> The graves they left behind, the bitter graves.</p><p>- Robert Service</p><p> </p><p>Robert William Service (1874 – 1958) – British-born Canadian Poet, who joined the Ambulance Corps of the American Red Cross and served as a Stretcher Bearer during WW1 -</p><p style="text-align: center;">“… a people’s poet” Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph of Sept. 16, 1958</p><p>Find our more about him:</p><p>https://forgottenpoetsofww1.blogspot.com/2019/04/robert-william-service-1874-1958.html</p><p><br /></p><p>https://forgottenpoetsofww1.blogspot.com/2019/05/who-wrote-ww1-poem-stretcher-bearer.html</p><div><br /></div>Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13956422195610297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1117949030117695917.post-76521328534364370892022-08-19T08:19:00.006-07:002022-08-19T08:19:34.976-07:00Alfred Crowdy LOVETT (1863 – 1919) – British soldier and very prolific artist<p>Alfred Crowdy Lovett was born in Croydon, Surrey, UK in the early months of 1863. His parents were James Crowdy Lovett and his wife, Ellen Hawkins Lovett, nee Bevan. Alfred was baptised in St James church, Croydon on September 5th 1863. He first appeared on the census of 1871 aged 8 and living at Addiscombe Road, Holly Mount, Croydon with his parents and brothers.</p><p>In 1882 Alfred became a Lieutenant in the 4th Bn. The East Surrey Regiment. </p><p>By the 1901 census, he was aged 38, single and a Captain in the Infantry. The census was for the parish of Sandhurst, Berkshire.</p><p>In the second quarter of 1903, Alfred married Fannie Rumsey in Maryleborne London. He served during WW1, commanding the 1st Gloucestershire Regiment at the retreat from Mons in 1914. </p><p>Alfred’s military career was distinguished and he was gazetted twice. On 16/02/1915 (gazette date) he was made a Companion of the order of the Bath, and on 3/02/1919 in the King’s Birthday Honours he was awarded a CBE. He was by then a Brigadier General and on the “general staff”.</p><p>Alfred Crowdy Lovett “died of illness in the U. K. and was buried in Manor Road Cemetery grave ref. the oval.17. At his death he is listed as having served in the General Staff & the Gloucestershire Regiment, which he joined in 1883. </p><p>Medals:</p><p>Silver Star, Victory and British War Medals</p><p>C.B. C.B.E. Mentioned in Dispatches</p><p>As well as being a distinguished soldier, Alfred Crowdy Lovell was a talented artist, his work being shown at the Royal Academy. He also wrote books:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihqZ3BdUDEMuiwUjQxfi7cajLntaRi9LFcpCWt7ID80RxA1QOMIYjYcGGk563QSPrM99Rr9q-bgmGCGx81nvQTlkIiga_uYeTYZ60PmqjgzBwyFwGKaiKnwHib4Q19hYvWEs6gGvz5iLJo_rldpBEGG2DXY6r-DLnwahcocchhcAnkYrTFViFjump-/s456/India%20and%20the%20War%20cover%20A%20C%20Lovett.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="456" data-original-width="300" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihqZ3BdUDEMuiwUjQxfi7cajLntaRi9LFcpCWt7ID80RxA1QOMIYjYcGGk563QSPrM99Rr9q-bgmGCGx81nvQTlkIiga_uYeTYZ60PmqjgzBwyFwGKaiKnwHib4Q19hYvWEs6gGvz5iLJo_rldpBEGG2DXY6r-DLnwahcocchhcAnkYrTFViFjump-/s320/India%20and%20the%20War%20cover%20A%20C%20Lovett.jpg" width="211" /></a></div><br /><p>“India and the War” (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1915) and</p><p>“The Armies of India painted by A.C. Lovett ; described by G.F. MacMunn” ;-with foreword by Earl Roberts (Adam and Charles Black, London, 1911)</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifl7I62KYu_Wy9fBSQ7AutQ3ucnpw4Z1kBTYqjNDH1VUJus2v8usAOpmuPb0L7_95UZT4XTF6ltdWk0GfTtq67Cc90_08PSxg7k_r6W4KiXQMp1_s6iumw6Cwi9TkplJk9LB7XvQYpQtLnrw6HzGnG4BHQ3cSddjC6yNQrYPKButxdzXCtSmf8qUdC/s400/The%20Armies%20of%20India%20A%20C%20Lovett.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="252" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifl7I62KYu_Wy9fBSQ7AutQ3ucnpw4Z1kBTYqjNDH1VUJus2v8usAOpmuPb0L7_95UZT4XTF6ltdWk0GfTtq67Cc90_08PSxg7k_r6W4KiXQMp1_s6iumw6Cwi9TkplJk9LB7XvQYpQtLnrw6HzGnG4BHQ3cSddjC6yNQrYPKButxdzXCtSmf8qUdC/s320/The%20Armies%20of%20India%20A%20C%20Lovett.jpg" width="202" /></a></div><br /><p>Alfred is remembered in Manor Road Cemetery and on the WW1 Roll of Honour at Whitgift School where he was a pupil. </p><p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH2GOu2wODMJJx82pqZnut31DxhTi7xqPAO-nec_63jnNGWYQo_rPBjoliVqbMZf8Cn3OCLwmyniDDj19BwWVH9WbgcNmyfuKWP4FfipY_FFqg_0UiyvXtiI1yBuG39cUri3CpFZWOGdDERP2Sguan8hBQywKQGkspY9D3Zbp4gSSQPXF9gWDZJLe6/s546/WW1%20Roll%20of%20Honour%20Whitgift%20School%20Croydon%20A%20C%20Lovett.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="546" data-original-width="409" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH2GOu2wODMJJx82pqZnut31DxhTi7xqPAO-nec_63jnNGWYQo_rPBjoliVqbMZf8Cn3OCLwmyniDDj19BwWVH9WbgcNmyfuKWP4FfipY_FFqg_0UiyvXtiI1yBuG39cUri3CpFZWOGdDERP2Sguan8hBQywKQGkspY9D3Zbp4gSSQPXF9gWDZJLe6/s320/WW1%20Roll%20of%20Honour%20Whitgift%20School%20Croydon%20A%20C%20Lovett.jpeg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Roll of Honour at Whitgift School</span></td></tr></tbody></table></p><p>Sources:</p><p>https://www.scarboroughcemeteries.co.uk/database/lovett-alfred-crowdy/</p><p>https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Lovett%2C%20Alfred%20Crowdy%2C%201862%2D1919</p><p>https://glosters.tripod.com/1919off.html</p><p>https://www.google.com/search?q=alfred+crowdy+lovett&rlz=1C1CHBD_en-GBGB794GB794&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwidlND7ldH5AhWQa8AKHSAFD6UQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=1280&bih=824&dpr=1</p><p><br /></p>Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13956422195610297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1117949030117695917.post-40859700179318910922022-08-11T13:14:00.001-07:002022-08-11T13:14:18.784-07:00George Mayer-Marton (1897 – 1960) - Hungarian artist<p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUrS0_Gew0p93NLqAr0MhVVnsWPgjsIjMikXXvl_TR5ZrtdwufCpQUyxGEM8swEQlILLOsL5i9jEuAsrxvvi_kVp0Q_0gK4y84lyIVmaJWzy8S74S7jpaTOUQE4z7JCH4ganyQ3f9oG6PnySqBu1cd2_J_IVjhFGhG8ejoirLuJicfKyD_ehBiUUXe/s1200/George%20Meyer-Marton%20self%20portrait.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="884" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUrS0_Gew0p93NLqAr0MhVVnsWPgjsIjMikXXvl_TR5ZrtdwufCpQUyxGEM8swEQlILLOsL5i9jEuAsrxvvi_kVp0Q_0gK4y84lyIVmaJWzy8S74S7jpaTOUQE4z7JCH4ganyQ3f9oG6PnySqBu1cd2_J_IVjhFGhG8ejoirLuJicfKyD_ehBiUUXe/w237-h320/George%20Meyer-Marton%20self%20portrait.jpg" width="237" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">self portrait</td></tr></tbody></table>While researching yesterday, I found a Hungarian artist who served in WW1 - George Mayer-Marton (3 June 1897 – 8 August 1960) - a Hungarian artist who was a significant figure in Viennese art between the First and Second World Wars, working in oil, watercolour and graphics. </p><p>Mayer-Marton was born György, or Georg in German, in Győr, Kingdom of Hungary in 1897, and grew up during the final years of Austro-Hungary. He served in the Austro-Hungarian Army during the First World War. From 1919 to 1924 he studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, and also visited Ravenna in Italy</p><p>Following his emigration to England in 1938, he changed the spelling of his forename to George on British naturalization. He continued to paint in watercolour and oil. He pioneered the technique of Byzantine mosaic in the UK. In 1952, he took up the post of Senior Lecturer in the department of painting at the Liverpool College of Art and introduced the new subject of mural art. I could not find any WW1 paintings by him but I feel he should be remembered.</p><div><br /></div>Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13956422195610297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1117949030117695917.post-56462620099168450092022-08-11T13:06:00.001-07:002022-08-11T13:06:48.499-07:00Alfred Edmeades "Fred" Bestall, MBE (1892 – 1986) - British artist<p style="text-align: center;"><b><i>With thanks to Historian Debbie Cameron for this information </i></b></p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhu9CtWFu_7HJ9ed6Wyhzh6Ouss0kS-_3_j50Ysxd2CsY23s8FFCmRZ6aTi5204T5GsSEvrh8v-HKu1j1TajwzQpmV_U4pRx-qq38Ga3zdM_ViiWNK5CHwWPPX5GnP8zG4g2MgYJwWhYhyzN3bfDadzXHTRW2YiNKWGlPF8tlU1IzBBYuZFR35aeLv/s255/Alfred%20Edmeades%20and%20Rupert%20Bear.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="197" data-original-width="255" height="197" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhu9CtWFu_7HJ9ed6Wyhzh6Ouss0kS-_3_j50Ysxd2CsY23s8FFCmRZ6aTi5204T5GsSEvrh8v-HKu1j1TajwzQpmV_U4pRx-qq38Ga3zdM_ViiWNK5CHwWPPX5GnP8zG4g2MgYJwWhYhyzN3bfDadzXHTRW2YiNKWGlPF8tlU1IzBBYuZFR35aeLv/s1600/Alfred%20Edmeades%20and%20Rupert%20Bear.jpeg" width="255" /></a></div>Alfred Edmeades Bestall wrote and illustrated the “Rupert Bear” cartoon stories for the London “Daily Express” newspaper from 1935 to 1965. The original creator of the Rupert Bear stories was British artist Mary Tourtel (born Mary Caldwell on 28 January 1874 – 15 March 1948). In 1900 she married an assistant editor of “The Daily Express”, Herbert Bird Tourtel. <p></p><p>The initial purpose of the Rupert Bear stories which began on 8th November 1920, was to win sales from rival newspapers “Daily Mail” and “Daily Mirror”.</p><p>Alfred won a scholarship to the Birmingham Central School (later College) of Art and later attended the London County Council (LCC) Central School of Arts and Crafts in Camden. He served in the First World War as an MT (motor transport) driver in the British Army in Flanders, transporting troops, ammunition and stores in a range of vehicles including converted double-decker London B-Type buses, often under enemy fire. Following the war, Bestall finished his studies at the Central School of Art and was hired to illustrate books by Enid Blyton</p><p>Additional information from</p><p>https://www.beddgelerttourism.com/Rupert/</p><div><br /></div>Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13956422195610297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1117949030117695917.post-28299126724309660812022-07-08T07:55:00.009-07:002022-11-22T08:41:53.233-08:00 Artists/Photographers, etc. who were awarded special medals for outstanding bravery during the First World War<p style="text-align: center;"><b><i>These are the names I have found so far. If you know of any others please get in touch with me. Thank you. </i></b></p><p><br /></p><p>Joseph Marius Jean Avy (1871 - 1939) - French Croix de Guerre – French artist </p><p>Geoffrey de Gruchy Barkas, MC, artist/film maker</p><p>Hans Bartle (1880 - 1943) - Austrian official WW1 artist. Iron Cross; Silver Medal for Bravery; the Knight's Cross of the Franz Joseph Order</p><p>Alan Edmund Beeton, MC</p><p>John Warwick Brooke DCM – official WW1 war photographer</p><p>John Cosmo Clark, MC (1897 – 1967) – British artist and art teacher; served in Artists Rifles WW1</p><p>Philip Lindsey Clark, DSO, ARBS (1889–1977) - British sculptor. In December 1917, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (D.S.O) for "...conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty when in command of the left flank company of the battalion."</p><p>Helena Gleichen OBE, DStJ (1873 – 1947) – artist. For her First World War work, Helena was awarded the Italian Bronze Medal of Military Valour and was invested as a Dame of Grace of the Order of St John of Jerusalem and as an OBE in 1920.</p><p>William Robert Gregory MC (1881 – 1918) - Irish-born, RFC/RAF British airman, artist and cricketer; France made him a Chevalier of the Legion d'Honneur in 1917</p><p>Antony Gibbons Grinling, MC – artist and sculptor</p><p>Carl W Herman, MM (1888 – 1955) – artist</p><p>Christopher Wyndham Hughes MC (1881-1961) - artist; served as Temporary Captain in the 7th Battalion Wiltshire Regiment </p><p>Charles Sargeant Jagger MC ARA (1885 – 1934) British sculptor</p><p>Richard Barrett Talbot Kelly MC (1896-1971), Lieutenant Royal Field Artillery</p><p>Paul Maximilien Landowski, Croix de Guerre (1 June 1875 – 31 March 1961) – French Scultpor and WW1 camouflage artist </p><p>A W Lloyd, MC – Arthur Wynell Lloyd (1883 - 1933) – British cartoonist</p><p>Walter Marsden MC (1882–1969) – sculptor</p><p>John B. McDowell, MC, BEM (1877 – 1954) – British film maker, director and cameraman during WW1</p><p>Waldo Peirce (December 17, 1884 – March 8, 1970) - an American painter, who for many years revelled in living the life of a bohemian expatriate. Awarded the Croix de Guerre</p><p>William Charles Penn MC (1877 – 1968) - artist; 5th Battalion The King’s (Liverpool) Regiment</p><p>Geneste Penrose MM (1889 – 1974) – artist </p><p>Gerald Spencer Pryse MC (1882–1956) - British artist and lithographer.</p><p>E. Claude Rowberry, MM, (1896 - 1962) – artist</p><p>E.H. Shepard, MC (1879 – 1976) – artist (illustrator of A.A. Milne’s “Pooh” stories</p><p>William George Storm, MC (1882 - 1917) – Canadian artist</p><p>Dents Wells, BEM (1881-1973) served in the Artists Rifles during WWI; awarded a B.E.M. for gallantry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Empire_Medal</p><p>Charles Arthur Wheeler, DCM (1880 - 1877) - New Zealand artist. Served in 22 Bn Royal Fusiliers; awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal (1916) for his actions at Vimy Ridge</p><p>Sir George Hubert Wilkins MC & Bar (31 October 1888 – 30 November 1958).</p><div><br /></div>Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13956422195610297062noreply@blogger.com