Eric Kennington (1888-1960)

"Costermongers" 1914

"The last stages of pneumonia"

"Trees at The Somme" 1919

"Soldier's grave, Martin le Puich" 1919

"A wounded soldier" 1918

"Signaller off duty"

"Portrait of a young soldier wearing his helmet"

"A gas patient"

"Raider with cosh"

"Interior of an Adrian hut"

"A soldier seated" 1918

"Gassed and wounded" 1918

"Captain W. Mohr, a Squadron Commander of the Royal Norwegian Air Force serving with the RAF" 1942

"Portrait of a soldier"

"In the flare path" 1941

"Portrait study of a little girl" 1917

"The Kensingtons at Laventie"

In 1914, Kennington enlisted with the Kensingtons, the 13th London Regiment. He fought in northern France where he was wounded and sent home in June 1915. During his convalescence, he produced this portrait of a group of infantrymen who had halted among the snow-covered ruins of a village. Kennington himself can be seen, wearing a dark blue balaclava helmet and standing behind the soldier with a German pickelhaube strapped to his backpack by way of a trophy. Each figure has a name, even the exhausted infantryman in the foreground. First exhibited in 1916, the work created a sensation owing to the painting's attention to detail and total rejection of lyricism of any kind.