![]() The Art Gallery have a few pieces of his work as he was a local chap and it is all interesting but there is something about the claustrophobic nature of The Casualty List that makes it feel very immediate and real. She also incessantly writes about anything and everything. She has researched the life of Fanny Cornforth for over a decade, writing articles and papers on the subject. ![]() Leonard Skeats painting is very moving as you see her friends notice the woman's distress and what makes it very special to the Southampton show is that it was painted in Eling, on the west of Southampton. Kirsty Stonell Walker is a Victorian Studies Academic, specialising in the social history of the Pre-Raphaelite movement. I can only think of Byam Shaw's Last Year Things Were Greener but will seek out more and please comment any you can think of. ![]() I would love to gather together any paintings that explored the experience of these women in Victorian and Edwardian life, before the mass mobilisation of the World Wars. I think we can guess by her expression that it is not good news, or maybe the physical effort of reading through the dead every day to see if your loved one is there has just taken a terrible toll on her? While I had the massive painting of Major Allan Wilson at the Shangani in the Russell-Cotes run of the exhibition, the toll of colonial war on women left at home is rarely shown. ![]() The group of women in the cottage are washing clothes but one has paused to read the casualty list from the Boer War. ![]() I was so pleased that I could use this piece in the second leg of the show as it is a marvellous moment of narrative art. ![]()
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