Location

Country: Other
City: storage

Interpretation about this artwork is under review

The Government Art Collection recognises its responsibility to artists, colleagues and all
audiences to represent the diversity of the UK and to embed anti-racist and equitable practices throughout our work. We are taking action to address inequality in the Collection and its interpretation.

People

Tooke, Cecil Arthur

Places

Subjects

WW1 art, male portrait, man, 20th century costume, military uniform, prisoner, seaman, sailor (navy), World War I

Materials & Techniques

canvas, oil, oil painting

Artist

Arthur Kampf (1864 - 1950)

Title

Cecil Arthur Tooke, OBE (1884-1966) seaman, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve

Date

1918

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 72.40 cm, width: 56.40 cm

Acquisition

Previously on loan from Joseph Pyke from 1952, currently unclaimed.

Inscription

tl: Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve / LONDON. ; tr: A. Kampf / 1918

Provenance

With dealer / auction house in Hamburg, in c.1931-34; from whom purchased by Joseph Pyke, then Consul-General to Hamburg (and on loan to the Ministry of Works from 1952)

GAC number

1723