General Officers of World War I
1922 National Portrait Gallery
About this artwork
This large-scale group portrait depicts twenty-two prominent British and Commonwealth military commanders of the First World War. It was commissioned for the National Portrait Gallery following the conflict.
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John Singer Sargent was famously reluctant to take on this massive commission, reportedly finding it daunting to arrange so many high-ranking figures in a single cohesive composition. To manage the logistics, he had the generals visit his studio in small groups, painting them individually and piecing them together into the final monumental canvas.
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General Officers of World War I
John Singer Sargent, 1922
