Medjez El Bab: Grenadier Hill in Background

Location

Country: Algeria
City: Algiers
Place: British Embassy

Born in Leeds, Henry Marvell Carr studied at Leeds College of Art and the Royal College of Art in London. During the First World War he served in France in the Royal Field Artillery, and during the Second World War he worked as an Official War Artist in North Africa and Italy. He exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy and the Paris Salon from the early 1920s until his death in 1970. He also taught for a number of years at Beckenham Art School, where he was made head of the School. He wrote a treatise on portrait painting in 1952, and was awarded a gold medal at the Paris Salon in 1956. The Royal Society of Portrait Painters made him a Fellow in 1948 and he was elected a Royal Academician in 1966.

Places

Africa, North Africa, Tunisia, Medjez-el-Bab

Subjects

horseback, topography, WW2 art, townscape/cityscape, grass, tree, horse, man, World War II, telegraph pole, church

Materials & Techniques

canvas, oil, oil painting

Artist

Henry Marvell Carr (1894 - 1970)

Title

Medjez El Bab: Grenadier Hill in Background

Date

1943

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 53.00 cm, width: 64.00 cm

Acquisition

Presented via the Imperial War Museum, War Artists' Advisory Committee, April 1946

Inscription

br: HENRY CARR 43

GAC number

1012