Armistice Night, Trafalgar Square

Location

Country: Other
City: other locations abroad

Lincoln-born George F. Carline, portrait and landscape artist, worked in both watercolour and oils. He studied at Heatherley’s School of Fine Art in London and in Antwerp and Paris. He later exhibited at the Royal Academy and the Royal Institution. In 1896, an exhibition of 59 of his paintings titled ‘The Home of our English Wild Flowers’ was held at the Dowdeswell Galleries in London. Carline died in Assisi, Italy, in 1920. All three of his children were also artists. Notably, his son Richard, who was a landscape and figure painter and served as an official war artist during World War I, in Palestine, Persia and India. His daughter, Hilda, is best remembered as the first wife of painter Stanley Spencer, whom she married in 1925.

Places

England, London, Trafalgar Square, Church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Nelson's Column, National Gallery

Subjects

statue (as Subject), dance, topography, WW1 art, history painting, townscape/cityscape, night, man, woman, crowd, celebration, fireworks, soldier, World War I, armistice, public square, monument, spire, dome, pillar (architectural feature), plinth (represented)

Materials & Techniques

canvas, oil, oil painting

Artist

George F Carline (1855 - 1920)

Title

Armistice Night, Trafalgar Square

Date

11-16 November 1918

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 76.40 cm, width: 63.50 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Christie's, 2 June 1978

Inscription

bl: George Carline / 11 to 16 NOV: 1918

Provenance

Collection of Richard Carline (son of the artist); by whom sold through Christie's, London, 'English Pictures' sale, on 2 June 1978 (Lot 178), unframed; from which sale purchased by the Department of the Environment

GAC number

13849