British official war artists
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British official war artists were a select group of artists who were employed on contract, or commissioned to produce specific works during the First World War, the Second World War and select militar
The Kensingtons at Laventie (1915)
Drumcree, The Garvaghy Road July 1997 by David Rowlands, oil on canvas, 91 cm × 61 cm
Hall of Remembrance
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The Hall of Remembrance was a series of paintings and sculptures commissioned, in 1918, by the British War Memorials Committee of the British Ministry of Information in commemoration of the dead of Wo
British official war artists
…Minister. Rather than focus on short-term propaganda, the main aim of the BMWC was to create a lasting memorial to the war in the form of a national Hall of Remembrance. To this end younger artists, including Stanley Spencer and Wyndham Lewis, were commissioned by the BWMC to produce a series of large artworks, After…
Travoys Arriving with Wounded at a Dressing-Station at Smol, Macedonia, September 1916 by Stanley Spencer
An Advanced Dressing Station in France, 1918 by Henry Tonks
Gassed by John Singer Sargent
Irish Troops in the Judaean Hills Surprised by a Turkish Bombardment by Henry Lamb