Sir David Cameron

Catalogue entry

N03813 RUE DU BOURG, CHARTRES 1917
 
Inscr. ‘D. Y. Cameron’ b.r.
Canvas, 24×16 (61×41).
Presented by the National Art-Collections Fund 1923.
Coll: Robert Jack of Ponclair, Lanark, by 1922.
Exh: R.A., 1917 (608).
Repr: Royal Academy Illustrated, 1917, p.80; N.A.C.F. Report 1923, 1924, p.20.

Probably painted soon after the artist had been sent to France as a War Artist commissioned by the Canadian Government. The name Courtois is inscribed over the shop doorway.

Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, I

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