Richard Carline
Hover over the painting to magnify (there may be an initial delay while the magnified image is loaded)Richard Carline (1896-1980):
Self-portrait, 1923
Unframed (ref: 4957)
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated
24 x 16 9/10 in. (61 x 43 cm)
See all works by Richard Carline oil portraits 1.PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST
Provenance: The Artist's Studio
An earlier Self Portrait (aged 22, Self Portrait in Uniform) is in the collection of The Imperial War Museum.
As well as serving in World War One Carline was also appointed an Official War Artist,, along with his brother Sydney and both became noted for war pictures from the air. Carline made this a feature of a lecturing tour he undertook to the United States in 1920
This current portrait shows Carline, back in civiliam clothes, aged 27.
In the same year Stanley Spencer painted Carlines portrait - in 1925 Spencer married Carline's sister Hilda.
Rugby Art Gallery and Museum, 1923
