Uncle George Posted 9 May , 2016 Share Posted 9 May , 2016 Ook! Sorry - I should have looked more closely at your avatar! ... an ape ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Ridgus Posted 9 May , 2016 Share Posted 9 May , 2016 David you are giving us an easy time John (Jack) Travers Cornwell VC by Ambrose McEvoy John As you say. However what intrigued me was that I thought I had heard of all the main war artists but I had never come across McEvoy before. David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 9 May , 2016 Share Posted 9 May , 2016 Combined WbW and FoWP ... sJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Clifton Posted 10 May , 2016 Share Posted 10 May , 2016 David you are giving us an easy time John (Jack) Travers Cornwell VC by Ambrose McEvoy John Or is it his brother? I believe that there are no surviving photos of Jack, and that the well-known image is actually of his brother, dressed up in naval rig. Ron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 10 May , 2016 Share Posted 10 May , 2016 Hi Ron Or is it his brother? I believe that there are no surviving photos of Jack, and that the well-known image is actually of his brother, dressed up in naval rig. Ron I tend to agree with your theory as the painting is dated 1918, so if there were any photos available then, and they do not exist now, in order to get a good likeness from a studio photo he must have used a substitute "sailor" to have posed, hence his brother made the ideal candidate John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 10 May , 2016 Share Posted 10 May , 2016 Hi seaJane She is Petra Gill fiancé of David Jones, of, In Parenthesis fame. DJ served on the Western Front from 1915 to 1918 with the Royal Welch Fusiliers and took part at Mametz Wood, giving him his inspirations. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 10 May , 2016 Share Posted 10 May , 2016 Correct John. Drawn by DJ, which I expect you knew. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 10 May , 2016 Share Posted 10 May , 2016 I`ll throw in a WbW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 10 May , 2016 Share Posted 10 May , 2016 NF Cryptically without giving anything away there are almost two US presidents here john Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gronksmil Posted 11 May , 2016 Share Posted 11 May , 2016 NF Cryptically without giving anything away there are almost two US presidents here john C.E.W. BEAN. Australian historian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 11 May , 2016 Share Posted 11 May , 2016 C.E.W. BEAN. Australian historian. That's the who, but for a complete answer, who is the by whom? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 11 May , 2016 Share Posted 11 May , 2016 George Washington Lambert was the painter of as correctly id Charles Edward Woodward Bean (Washington as a US president, and Woodward as nearly a second Woodrow) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 11 May , 2016 Share Posted 11 May , 2016 George Washington Lambert was the painter of as correctly id Charles Edward Woodward Bean (Washington as a US president, and Woodward as nearly a second Woodrow) Lambert is correct of course, and war correspondent Bean.I got the Washington link, but Woodward went over my head I'm afraid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 11 May , 2016 Share Posted 11 May , 2016 Sorry NF it was just one of those warped things you sometimes see that others don't. Promise I won't do it again:-) John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 11 May , 2016 Share Posted 11 May , 2016 WbW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 11 May , 2016 Share Posted 11 May , 2016 I'm getting nowhere with sJ's. So while we look further: They are both wearing serious hats. Beneath this admirable hat is a WGGGGW. Who is she ? ? ? (N.B. - She is thought never to have been chased up a tree by an orang-utan.) For an easy extra point - who is the little red-faced chap standing next to her? (He is not her husband/paramour.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 11 May , 2016 Share Posted 11 May , 2016 UG sJ's looks a bit like Mussolini to me. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 11 May , 2016 Share Posted 11 May , 2016 UG sJ's looks a bit like Mussolini to me. John I thought that! The death mask of Mussolini, I thought. But the moustache ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 11 May , 2016 Share Posted 11 May , 2016 The subject was a war artist. The sculptor served, briefly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 11 May , 2016 Share Posted 11 May , 2016 The subject was a war artist. The sculptor served, briefly. Is the subject Muirhead Bone? EDIT - and the artist Jacob Epstein? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 11 May , 2016 Share Posted 11 May , 2016 Yes to both Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 11 May , 2016 Share Posted 11 May , 2016 Mussolini - what were we thinking Is that the bust in the Israel Museum Jerusalem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gronksmil Posted 11 May , 2016 Share Posted 11 May , 2016 Lambert is correct of course, and war correspondent Bean. I got the Washington link, but Woodward went over my head I'm afraid. Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 11 May , 2016 Share Posted 11 May , 2016 Cheers gronksmil Getting my Woodrow and Woodward mixed up a bit. You got my drift Washington and Woodrow Wilson, last time I try been cryptic made a pigs ear. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 11 May , 2016 Share Posted 11 May , 2016 Mussolini - what were we thinking Is that the bust in the Israel Museum Jerusalem? There may be a copy or version there but the IWM has this one. sJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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