Christopher Nevinson
(1889-1946), ArtistChristopher Richard Wynne Nevinson
Sitter in 14 portraits
Artist, a fellow student with Stanley Spencer at the Slade; unfit for service in the army, in 1914 Nevinson joined the Friends' Ambulance Unit and went to France where he worked as a driver, stretcher-bearer and hospital orderly. Later he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps as a nurse at the Third General Hospital in London, but was invalided out with rheumatic fever in 1916. He was made an official war artist in 1917.
by Barney Seale
bronze bust, 1930
On display in the Entrance Hall on Floor 0 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 5914
by Howard Coster
glossy bromide print, 1935
NPG x2057
by Howard Coster
bromide print, 1935
NPG Ax136069
by Campbell Hoyle
bromide print, late 1930s
NPG x199038
by Harry Lawrence Oakley
silhouette, 1920s-1940s
NPG D377
by Hubert Leslie
cut paper silhouette, 1974 (1936)
NPG D495
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