William Roberts, R.A. (1895-1980)

Gunners pulling cannons, Ypres

Details

William Roberts, R.A. (1895-1980)
Gunners pulling cannons, Ypres
signed 'William/Roberts.' (lower left)
pencil, pen, black ink and watercolour
10 x 18 in. (27.4 x 47.7 cm.)
Executed circa 1916-18

Provenance

Sir Michael Sadler.
Jane Rendel, by whom purchased at the 1944 exhibition.

Exhibited

London, Leicester Galleries, Selection of Works from the Collection of Sir Michael Sadler, January 1944, no.57.

Lot Essay

Roberts served as a gunner at Ypres in the Royal Field Artillery from 1916. He became an official war artist in December 1917 when he was commissioned by the Canadian War Memorials Fund to depict the effects of the first gas attack on the Canadian Field Battery which had occurred in April 1915. The finished commission The First German Gas Attach at Ypres, 1918, is in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.

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