Mark Gertler
(1891-1939), PainterSitter in 100 portraits
Artist of 6 portraits
Born into a Polish-Jewish immigrant family in Spitalfields, in 1908 Gertler enrolled in the Slade School of Art under Henry Tonks and alongside Paul Nash, where he befriended Edward Marsh and Dora Carrington. Lady Ottoline Morrell became his patron, through whom he met members of the Bloomsbury Group. Gertler was a conscientious objector and used the de-humanising lessons of Vorticism to create, in Merry-Go-Round (1916, Tate Gallery), one of the most powerful images of the futility of war. His obsessive love for Carrington was not returned, and together with his anti-war beliefs, this fuelled his creativity. Suffering from ill health and depression, and disappointed by his career, he committed suicide in 1939.
'Artist in his studio' (Mark Gertler)
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1921
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Lady Ottoline Morrell with friends
by Philip Edward Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1921
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Lady Ottoline Morrell with friends
by Philip Edward Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1921
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Julian Vinogradoff (née Morrell); Mark Gertler
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1921
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1922
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Mark and hair!, Mummy' (Mark Gertler; Lady Ottoline Morrell)
possibly by Julian Vinogradoff (née Morrell)
vintage snapshot print, 1922
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Mark Gertler; Julian Vinogradoff (née Morrell); Henry William Massingham; E.M. Forster
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1922
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Henry William Massingham; Mark Gertler; E.M. Forster; Julian Vinogradoff (née Morrell)
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1922
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Walter James Redfern Turner; Anthony Asquith; Charles Percy Sanger; Mark Gertler
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1922
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'The writers inspired' (Mark Gertler; Julian Vinogradoff (née Morrell))
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1923
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'Hard at it' (Mark Gertler; Julian Vinogradoff (née Morrell))
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1923
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1923
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Mark Gertler; Julian Vinogradoff (née Morrell)
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1923
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1923-1923
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Julian Vinogradoff (née Morrell); Mark Gertler; Lady Ottoline Morrell
by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, 1923-1924
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Mark Gertler; Julian Vinogradoff (née Morrell); Lady Ottoline Morrell
by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, 1923-1924
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Harold Lee-Dillon, 17th Viscount Dillon; Mark Gertler and an unknown man
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, July 1923
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Harold Lee-Dillon, 17th Viscount Dillon; Mark Gertler and an unknown woman
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, July 1923
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Philip Edward Morrell; Harold Lee-Dillon, 17th Viscount Dillon; Mark Gertler and two unknown sitters
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, July 1923
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Mark Gertler; Julian Vinogradoff (née Morrell); Philip Edward Morrell
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1924
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