

Portrait of Cosmo Clark, 1917
Framed (ref: 5960)
Signed and dated, oil on panel
Tags: Eric Kennington oil panel men war 1.PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST No Mans Land Thirty Royal Academicians
Tags: Eric Kennington oil panel men war 1.PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST No Mans Land Thirty Royal Academicians
Provenance: Jean and Cosmo Clark's daugher, Julia Rhys
Literature: Llewellyn, Sacha, and Paul Liss. Portrait of an Artist. Liss Llewellyn, 2021, p.173.
Cosmo Clark and Eric Kennington - childhood neighbours - were life-long friends and during the First World War both served with the Middlesex Regiment, to which Kennington was attached as an Official War Artist.