Ethelbert White
Digging Man, 1916
Oil on panel
17 x 14 inches
Signed and inscribed verso
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Provenance
The Hanover Gallery, London
Note: White stood by his pacifist convictions during WW1 vowing ‘never to raise my hand against living things’. Registered as a conscientious objector he was sent to work on the land in Devon. The present painting is his self portrait as a farm labourer or perhaps symbolically ‘Self Portrait of the Artist as Conscientious Objector’.