Colin
Gill was born
in Kent in 1892. He trained at the Slade School
and had his first exhibition at the New
English Art Club in 1914.
On the outbreak of the First World War Gill
joined the British Army and in 1915 was
sent to France as a member of the Royal Artillery.
The following year he was seconded as a camouflage officer in the
Royal Engineers. Gill was recruited as an official war artist in 1918
and all his paintings on the war were completed after the Armistice.
In the 1920s and 30s Colin Gill
concentrated on decorative murals. It was while working on a public
mural in Johannesburg, South
Africa that
he died in 1940.
| Colin
Gill, The Captive (1918) |
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