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Looking relaxed and debonair, Rex Whistler depicted himself enjoying a drink on the balcony of a friend's house in York Terrace, overlooking Regent's Park, London. He was clearly moved by his transformation into a soldier and painted this portrait on the very day his uniform arrived. Whistler had already established a considerable reputation as an artist, but he was not among those selected by Kenneth Clark for the official war art scheme. Instead Whistler decided to join the Army and persuaded the Colonel of the Welsh Guards to grant him a commission on 'the grounds of being a decent fellow and rather a good cartoonist!' Following the formation of the Guards Armoured Division in 1941, Second Lieutenant Rex Whistler, 2nd Battalion, Welsh Guards, became a troop commander, commanding three tanks.
National Army Museum
London
Title
Rex Whistler’s Self-Portrait in Welsh Guards Uniform, May 1940
Date
1940
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 68.6 x W 55.9 cm
Accession number
NAM. 1994-01-113
Acquisition method
purchased from Lawrence Whistler, 1994
Work type
Painting
National Army Museum
Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea, London, Greater London SW3 4HT England
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