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| Peggy Fitzgerald Self Portrait 1937 oil on canvas Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle, Cumbria |
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| Edward Wadsworth Self Portrait 1937 tempera on panel National Portrait Gallery, London |
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| David Bomberg Self Portrait 1937 oil on board Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, Sussex |
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| Julian Trevelyan Self Portrait 1940 oil on canvas National Portrait Gallery, London |
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| William George Gillies Self Portrait 1940 oil on canvas Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Leslie Hurry Self Portrait ca. 1943 oil on cardboard National Portrait Gallery, London |
Voices against England in the Night
'England, you had better go,
There is nothing else that you ought to do,
You lump of survival value, you are too slow.
England, you have been here too long,
And the songs you sing are the songs you sung
On a braver day. Now they are wrong.
And as you sing the silver slips from your lips,
And the governing garment sits ridiculously on your hips.
It is a pity that you are still too cunning to make slips.'
Dr Goebbels, that is the point,
You are a few years too soon with your jaunt,
Time and the moment is not yet England's daunt.
Yes, dreaming Germany with your Urge and Night,
You must go down before England and American might,
It is well, it is well, cries the peace kite.
Perhaps England our darling will recover her lost thought,
We must think sensibly about our victory and not be distraught,
Perhaps America will have an idea, and perhaps not.
But they cried: Could not England, once the world's best,
Put off her governing garment and be better dressed
In a shroud, a shroud? O history turn thy pages fast!
– Stevie Smith (ca. 1945)
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| Stanley Spencer Self Portrait by Gaslight looking Downwards 1949 oil on canvas Reading Museum, Berkshire |
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| Percival Arthur Wise Self Portrait 1949-50 oil on canvas Poole Museum, Dorset |
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| Henry Lamb Self Portrait 1950 oil on canvas National Portrait Gallery, London |
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| John Napper Self Portrait (after Rembrandt van Rijn) 1953 oil on canvas Ludlow Museum, Shropshire |
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| Patricia Bermiller Self Portrait 1954 oil on canvas University College London Art Museum |
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| Anne Redpath Self Portrait in a Venetian Mirror 1956 oil on board Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art |
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| William John Connon Self Portrait 1959 oil on board Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen |
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| Frederick Cuming Self Portrait 1959 oil on canvas Ruth Borchard Collection, London |
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| Claude Rogers Self Portrait 1959 oil on canvas National Portrait Gallery, London |