The Treatment of Wounded Soldiers in a Ward of a Hospital c.1805–1811
Benjamin Zix (1772–1811)
Watercolour, pen, ink & grey wash on paper (?)
H 31.7 x W 50 cm
Wellcome Collection
The Nurse 1917
Joseph Johnston Lee (1876–1949)
Pencil & ink on paper
H 15.1 x W 9.6 cm
University of Dundee Fine Art Collections
John Lavery (1856–1941)
Oil on canvas
H 63.5 x W 76.2 cm
IWM (Imperial War Museums)
Nurse Giving an Injection of Penicilin to a Wounded Man, 15th Canadian General Hospital 1944
Henry Marvell Carr (1894–1970)
Oil on canvas
H 40.6 x W 50.8 cm
IWM (Imperial War Museums)
Florence Nightingale receiving the Wounded at Scutari c.1856
Jerry Barrett (1824–1906)
Oil on canvas
H 40.6 x W 61 cm
National Portrait Gallery, London
The Good Samaritan Attending to the Wounded Traveller at the Inn
Giovanni Battista Langetti (1635–1676)
Oil on canvas
H 151 x W 205.5 cm
National Trust, Osterley Park
Portrait of a Lady and a Nurse* 20th C
unknown artist
Oil on canvas
H 59 x W 50 cm
Royal College of Nursing
St John Ambulance Brigade Officer and Nurse 1955
Anna Katrina Zinkeisen (1901–1976)
Oil on canvas
H 91 x W 70 cm
Museum of the Order of St John
Eric Atkinson (1928–2022)
Oil on board
H 30 x W 45 cm
Hartlepool Museums and Heritage Service
The Careless Nurse 1877
John Burr (1831–1893)
Oil on canvas
H 50.8 x W 76.2 cm
Dundee Art Galleries and Museums Collection (Dundee City Council)
VAD Nurse 1940
Rosemary Rutherford (1912–1972)
Pen on paper
H 54 x W 40 cm
The Ingram Collection of Modern British and Contemporary Art
Flower (Nurse) (active 1891)
Watercolour on paper (?)
H 10.7 x W 15.5 cm
Wellcome Collection
Flower (Nurse) (active 1891)
Watercolour on paper (?)
H 13 x W 20 cm
Wellcome Collection
Albert Lynch (1860–1950)
Gouache, watercolour, pen & pencil
H 18.7 x W 28 cm
Wellcome Collection
Portrait of a Nurse 1941
Cyril James Frost (1880–1971)
Oil on canvas
H 39.5 x W 29 cm
Oxfordshire County Museums Service
Our Village Nurse 1892
Hubert von Herkomer (1849–1914)
Oil on canvas
H 46 x W 73 cm
Bushey Museum and Art Gallery
Head of a Nurse 1972
John Wilson McCracken (1936–1982)
Oil on board
H 56 x W 45.5 cm
Hartlepool Museums and Heritage Service
Clifford Hooper Rowe (1904–1989)
Oil on canvas
H 90 x W 60 cm
People's History Museum
Mary Jane Seacole, née Grant 1869
Albert Charles Challen (1847–1881)
Oil on panel
H 24 x W 18 cm
National Portrait Gallery, London
1869, oil on panel by Albert Charles Challen (1847–1881)
The Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps Convalescent Home, Le Touquet 1919
John Lavery (1856–1941)
Oil on canvas
H 59.6 x W 91.4 cm
IWM (Imperial War Museums)
A Nurse with Convalescent Soldiers on the Deck of a Hospital Ship
unknown artist
Pen & ink on paper (?)
H 24.2 x W 24.7 cm
Wellcome Collection
A Girl Reads to a Convalescent while a Nurse Brings in the Patient's Medicine 19th C
R. H. Giles (active 1826–1876)
Watercolour & ink on paper (?)
H 55.5 x W 71.2 cm
Wellcome Collection
Convalescent Nurses Making Camouflage Nets 1941
Evelyn Mary Dunbar (1906–1960)
Oil on canvas
H 45.8 x W 61 cm
IWM (Imperial War Museums)
The Convalescent – A Sketch at Cromwell House 1874
Henry Woods (1846–1921) (after)
Wood engraving on paper
Great Ormond Street Hospital
Military Hospital Nursing Wounded Soldiers from Abyssinia
Alexander Gascoigne Wildey (1860–1934)
Pen & ink on paper (?)
H 27.1 x W 34.1 cm
Wellcome Collection
Nurse, Wounded Soldier and Child 1915
William Hatherell (1855–1928)
Oil on canvas
H 45.7 x W 32.3 cm
IWM (Imperial War Museums)
Hospital Train 1942
Evelyn Mary Dunbar (1906–1960)
Oil on canvas
H 55.8 x W 76.2 cm
IWM (Imperial War Museums)
Nurse and Child, and Woman with Budgies c.1950
Valerie A. Cockburn
Oil on hardboard
H 107 x W 183 cm
Edinburgh College of Art (University of Edinburgh)
Le Havre: Nurse Billam and Sister Currier 1919
John Lavery (1856–1941)
Oil on canvas
H 63.5 x W 76.2 cm
IWM (Imperial War Museums)
Mary Joy, St John Ambulance Brigade Nurse 1903
unknown artist
Oil on canvas
H 46 x W 35 cm
Museum of the Order of St John
A Nurse Checking on a Playful Child 1904
John Earnshaw Sutcliffe (1876–1923)
Watercolour & gouache on paper (?)
H 35.8 x W 24.5 cm
Wellcome Collection
An Army Hospital Nurse in Her Outdoor Uniform 1899
unknown artist
Watercolour on paper (?)
H 26.6 x W 18.4 cm
Wellcome Collection
A District Nurse with Her Outdoor Uniform and Bag
unknown artist
Watercolour on paper (?)
H 39.2 x W 20.7 cm
Wellcome Collection
Miss M. S. Cochrane, Royal Regiment Canada: State Registered Nurse, Matron, Charing Cross Hospital 1941
Anthony Devas (1911–1958)
Oil on canvas
H 101.9 x W 76.2 cm
IWM (Imperial War Museums)
Le malade imaginaire: Argan, a Hypochondriac, Complaining of His Ailments to His Nurse 1859
Lorenz Frølich (1820–1908)
Pen & ink with wash on paper (?)
H 9.9 x W 13.8 cm
Wellcome Collection
A Nurse Monitoring a Patient after an Operation and Taking Notes 1995 (?)
Virginia Powell (b.1945)
Pencil & watercolour on paper (?)
H 25.5 x W 28 cm
Wellcome Collection
Joan Saxton, a Student Nurse Who Trained at Cirencester Memorial Hospital 1946
Frank Cadogan Cowper (1877–1958)
Oil on canvas
H 127 x W 92 cm
NHS Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire Care Services
A Physician and Nurse Attending a Sick Patient (?) and Her Servant 17th C
unknown artist
Watercolour on paper (?)
H 31.6 x W 23.7 cm
Wellcome Collection
William Small (1843–1931)
Gouache on paper (?)
H 26 x W 36.4 cm
Wellcome Collection
A Medical Drama: A Film Director Talks to Actors Playing a Surgeon, a Nurse and a Patient c.1975–1980 (?)
John Heseltine (1923–2016)
Oil on board
H 40 x W 66.3 cm
Wellcome Collection
A Village Doctress Distilling Eyewater c.1800
Thomas Rowlandson (1757–1827)
Watercolour on paper (?)
H 22.2 x W 18.3 cm
Wellcome Collection
Martin Jennings (b.1957) and Pangolin Editions (founded 1985)
Bronze, Cumbrian black slate & Portland stone
H 490 cm
Martin Jennings (b.1957) and Pangolin Editions (founded 1985)
Mary Seacole 2020
Greg Bunbury (b.1976)
Large format print on paper
H 304.8 x W 609.6 cm
Black Outdoor Art
Dame (Emma) Maud McCarthy 1917
Frank O. Salisbury (1874–1962)
Oil on canvas
H 60.4 x W 48.7 cm
National Portrait Gallery, London
Night Duty 1954 or before
Anna Katrina Zinkeisen (1901–1976)
Oil on canvas
H 76 x W 63.5 cm
Bradford Museums and Galleries
St Mary's First Aid Post by Candlelight 1941
Anna Katrina Zinkeisen (1901–1976)
Oil on canvas
H 76.2 x W 101.9 cm
IWM (Imperial War Museums)
Anna Katrina Zinkeisen (1901–1976)
Oil on canvas
H 75 x W 65 cm
Imperial Health Charity Art Collection
Anna Katrina Zinkeisen (1901–1976)
Oil on canvas
H 109 x W 89 cm
Imperial Health Charity Art Collection
C Ward, 101 British General Hospital, Louvain 1945
Doris Clare Zinkeisen (1898–1991)
Oil on canvas
H 65 x W 81 cm
British Red Cross Museum and Archives
The Funeral Service of Edith Cavell at Westminster Abbey, 15 May 1919 1919
William Hatherell (1855–1928)
Oil on canvas
H 170.8 x W 114.9 cm
IWM (Imperial War Museums)
Edith Cavell (1865–1915) 1915–1920
George James Frampton (1860–1928)
Cornish grey granite & white marble
H 1080 cm
Edith Cavell (1865–1915) c.1914
Georges François Paul Fichefet (1864–1954)
Oil on canvas
H 89 x W 61 cm
Barts Health NHS Trust Archives and Museums
John Peter Blandy (1927–2011)
Acrylic on canvas
H 30 x W 25 cm
Barts Health NHS Trust Archives and Museums
Florence Nightingale as the Lady with the Lamp
J. Butterworth (active 1839–1854) (attributed to)
Oil on canvas
H 41 x W 39.5 cm
Wellcome Collection
The Mission of Mercy: Florence Nightingale receiving the Wounded at Scutari 1857
Jerry Barrett (1824–1906)
Oil on canvas
H 141 x W 212.7 cm
National Portrait Gallery, London
Florence Nightingale 1862 or later
John Steell (1804–1891) (after)
Plaster
H 40 x W 23 x D 23.5 cm
CW+
Florence Nightingale (1820–1910) 1854
Richard James Lane (1800–1872)
Coloured lithograph on paper
H 56.8 x W 38.3 cm
Great Ormond Street Hospital
Florence Nightingale (1820–1910) 1862
John Steell (1804–1891) and Alessandro Parlanti (1862–c.1921)
Bronze
H 71 x W 47 cm
Florence Nightingale Museum
Florence Nightingale (1820–1910) 1911–1915
Arthur George Walker (1861–1939) and Fiorini Foundry and T. H. Wyatt
Bronze & red granite
H 275 cm
Miss B. M. Monk, Royal College of Nursing President (1938–1940) 20th C
unknown artist
Oil on canvas
H 39 x W 29 cm
Royal College of Nursing
Doctor and Sister Hot Air Ballooning 1994
Yasmin Billinghurst
Acrylic on canvas
H 76 x W 60.6 cm
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Florence Nightingale (1820–1910) 1954
Frederick Mancini (1905–1990)
Plaster
H 50 x W 14.1 x D 14.1 cm
University of Sheffield
Two Nurses 1965
Harry Karl-Heinz Wohlfarth (1921–1996)
Oil on board
H 90 x W 60 cm
Wellcome Collection
Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service (QAIMNS) Sister, Second World War 1945
Achille Bentos (1882–1964)
Oil on canvas
H 60 x W 44 cm
The Museum of Military Medicine
Sister Louisa Mills (1921–1962), MBE, Ulster Hospital for Children and Women 1967
G. D. McFadden
Oil on canvas
H 67 x W 53 cm
South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust
unknown artist
Oil on canvas
H 33.9 x W 25.5 cm
Cyfarthfa Castle Museum & Art Gallery
First World War: The German Navy Attacking Allied Nursing 1918
Louis Raemaekers (1869–1956)
Black & red chalk on paper
H 45.4 x W 63.6 cm
Wellcome Collection
Nurse Edith Cavell (1865–1915)
Raymond Lynde (1854–1928)
Oil on canvas
H 152.5 x W 101.5 cm
Norfolk Museums Service
Robert Sivell (1888–1958)
Oil on wood panel
H 34.6 x W 29.6 cm
Dumfries and Galloway Council
Portrait of a Nurse 1965
Eric Meadus (1931–1970)
Oil on canvas
H 43.2 x W 40.5 cm
Southampton City Art Gallery
A Nurse at a Sickbed 1897
Werner Zehme (1859–1924)
Oil on board
H 67.3 x W 45.7 cm
National Trust for Scotland, Haddo House
Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian Dressing a Chest Wound 1748
Antoine de Favray (1706–c.1792)
Oil on canvas
H 85.7 x W 119.5 cm
Wellcome Collection
An English Hospital Nurse in Full Uniform
unknown artist
Watercolour on paper (?)
H 26.8 x W 19.3 cm
Wellcome Collection
Infant and Nurse 1870–1880
Jules Lambeaux (1858–1890) (attributed to)
Oil on canvas
H 45.6 x W 37 cm
Sheffield Museums
Matron Mary Millar (1888–1956)
Charles Heath Wilson (1809–1882)
Oil on canvas
H 102 x W 76 cm
New Cross Hospital
It's Better To Give Than to Receive 2003
Tim Hunkin (b.1950)
Mixed media
H 200 x W 113 x D 116 cm
Guy's & St Thomas' Foundation
Caroline Amey Ruark, Matron of St Audry's Hospital (1929–1947)
Thomas Cantrell Dugdale (1880–1952)
Oil on canvas
H 75 x W 62 cm
Felixstowe Museum
Caroline Bowen in Nurse's Uniform 1966
Roy L. Parsons (1921–1999)
Oil on board
H 35.5 x W 25.5 cm
Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society
Miss G. M. Godden, Royal College of Nursing President (1956–1958) mid-20th C
unknown artist
Oil on canvas
H 33 x W 24 cm
Royal College of Nursing
Miss Margaret Jane Smyth, CBE, OBE 1956
Laura Knight (1877–1970)
Oil on canvas
H 76 x W 63.5 cm
Guy's & St Thomas' Foundation
Oliver Paque (W.H. Pike) (1846–1908)
Pen & pencil on paper (?)
H 27.4 x W 38.8 cm
Wellcome Collection
Dr David Little Operating for Cataract 1919
Harold Speed (1872–1957)
Oil on canvas
H 136.3 x W 122.2 cm
Manchester Art Gallery
Dame Sarah Ann Swift (1854–1937), Royal College of Nursing President (1925–1927) c.1910
Herbert James Draper (1864–1920) (after)
Oil on canvas
H 34 x W 24.5 cm
Royal College of Nursing
Nurse Ellis (?) 1943
Beryl Trist Newman (1906–1991)
Oil on canvas
H 77.5 x W 64.1 cm
York Museums Trust
Nurse Marjorie Knowling 1960s
Doreen Hammersley (b.1926)
Oil on canvas
H 51 x W 46 cm
Tenby Museum & Art Gallery
Staff Nurse R. Rosser, GM 1942
Walter Westley Russell (1867–1949)
Oil on canvas
H 91.4 x W 71.1 cm
IWM (Imperial War Museums)
Sister Annie MacLaren (d.1912)
George Phoenix (1863–1935)
Oil on canvas
H 135 x W 84 cm
New Cross Hospital
Miss C. E. Nelson (d.1954), Matron to Northampton General Hospital (1938–1954) 1955
Alice Mary Burton (1892–1973)
Oil on canvas
H 75 x W 62 cm
Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust
unknown artist
Watercolour on paper (?)
H 16.6 x W 24.5 cm
Wellcome Collection
Gordon Brown (1858–1932)
Gouache & ink wash on paper (?)
H 20 x W 30 cm
Wellcome Collection
Dame Alicia Lloyd Still (1869–1944) 1927–1932
George Harcourt (1868–1947)
Oil on canvas
H 102 x W 76 cm
Guy's & St Thomas' Foundation
Miss A. E. Vallely, MBE, SRN, RMN, Matron of the Royal Hospital Chelsea (1984–1993) 1990
Robert Darby
Oil on canvas
H 75 x W 59.5 cm
The Royal Hospital Chelsea
Nurses Sitting around a Table 1941
Hilda Davis
Oil on canvas
H 73 x W 86 cm
Imperial Health Charity Art Collection
Turn of the Century Nursery Scene exhibited 1945
Marjorie Christine Bates (1883–1962)
Oil on canvas
H 38 x W 47 cm
Nottinghamshire County Hall
John Lavery (1856–1941) (after)
Oil on canvas
H 52.5 x W 62.3 cm
Wellcome Collection
Nurses Leaving Charing Cross Hospital for Service in South Africa, Boer War, 1899
Robert White
Oil on canvas
H 97 x W 71 cm
Imperial Health Charity Art Collection
Stanley Cornwell Lewis (1905–2009)
Oil on canvas
H 270.5 x W 210 cm
Newport Museum and Art Gallery
Portrait of a Nurse 1916
William Logsdail (1859–1944)
Oil on canvas
H 72.4 x W 59.7 cm
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
Percy Frederick Seaton Spence (1868–1933)
Pen, ink, gouache & wash on paper (?)
H 20.5 x W 37.3 cm
Wellcome Collection
The Officers' Ward at the 41st Casualty Clearing Station c.1918–1919
John Hodgson Lobley (1878–1948)
Oil on panel
H 31.7 x W 39.3 cm
IWM (Imperial War Museums)
Wounded, London Hospital, 1915 1915
John Lavery (1856–1941)
Oil on canvas
H 175.6 x W 200.7 cm
Dundee Art Galleries and Museums Collection (Dundee City Council)
Claude Allin Shepperson (1867–1921)
Lithograph on paper
H 39.1 x W 50.8 cm
Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales
Naval Base: Women's Royal Naval Service Sick Bay 1942
Leslie Cole (1910–1976)
Oil on canvas
H 54.5 x W 77.4 cm
Southampton City Art Gallery
Marie-Louise Roosevelt Pierrepont (1889–1984)
Oil on canvas
H 63.5 x W 76.5 cm
The Pierrepont Collection
Mapping the Body 2004–2005
Simon Black (1958–2008)
Oil on linen
H 122 x W 153 cm
Royal Free Hospital
Miss Hedvica M. Shlehover in British Red Cross Voluntary Aid Detachment Uniform 1910
Hans Knoechl (1850–1927)
Oil on canvas
H 50 x W 39.5 cm
British Red Cross Museum and Archives
Interior of Shrubland Park Hospital, Barham, Suffolk, Showing Staff and a Patient 1919
Marion Saumarez (1885–1978)
Oil on board
H 50 x W 39 cm
British Red Cross Museum and Archives
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