Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols
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- subject matching 'The Great War: Made in 1915'
© estate of Malcolm Arbuthnot
Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols
by Malcolm Arbuthnot
platinotype mounted on photographer's card, circa 1915
8 1/8 in. x 5 5/8 in. (205 mm x 143 mm)
Purchased, 2000
Primary Collection
NPG P785
Artistback to top
- Malcolm Arbuthnot (Malcolm Lewin Stockdale Parson) (1877-1967), Photographer and artist. Artist or producer associated with 23 portraits.
This portraitback to top
The photograph was taken in Arbuthnot's New Bond Street studio, where later a fire destroyed much of his work. The photographer was one of the original signatories of the Vorticist manifesto and some years after the War he abandoned photography for painting.
Linked publicationsback to top
- Crane, David; Judd, Alan, First World War Poets, 2014, p. 88
- Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 459
Placesback to top
- Place made: United Kingdom: England, London (photographer's studio, New Bond Street, London)
Events of 1915back to top
Current affairs
The Times Newspaper reports that Britain's Army is suffering from a lack of Ammunition Shells, pointing the finger of blame at the Liberal government. The Shell Scandal forced Asquith to form a new coalition government, bringing Conservatives into the cabinet and demonstrating the need to gear the whole country's economy towards the war effort.Art and science
As the threat from aerial attack increased, the decision was made to protect the national art collections by storing them in basements or in locations outside London. On 15th October the National Portrait Gallery under the directorship of Sir Charles John Holmes closed its doors to the public and removed paintings from the walls.International
Stalemate ensues on the Western Front and trench warfare begins as both sides take up defensive positions. While offensive strategies become futile, serious loss of life occurs with the first deployment of tanks and the use of poison gas.Albert Einstein publishes his General Theory of Relativity, a model of gravitation and cosmology.
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