A grenadier guardsman by William Orpen, 1917, Wikiart.

After war was declared Augustus John told Bomberg ‘this news of war is going to be very bad for art’. This lecture explores the truth of his prophecy among three artists with first-hand experience of the war: David Bomberg, Christopher Nevison and William Orpen.

Lecturer Alan Reed has a masters and first-class honours degree in History of Art from Birkbeck College, University of London. He is a gallery guide at Tate Britain and regularly lectures at both London Tates. For twenty years he was a gallery guide and lecturer at the National Portrait Gallery and the Dulwich Picture Gallery. He also works as a London Blue Badge Guide