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Staff Canadian Headquarters Staff This painting by British
artist Sir William Nicholson depicts five Canadian generals and
one major of the First World War standing unposed in front of a
mural of the bombed Ypres Cathedral and Cloth Hall. This
unfinished painting originally commissioned by Lord Beaverbrook
was quickly forgotten, only to be rediscovered in the vaults of
the Canadian War Museum and later hailed as Nicholson's finest
work. Nicholson captured the officers in the moments before they
sat for an official portrait. Unconventional for the officers'
less than heroic stance, it has been argued that Nicholson may
have viewed his subjects with a measure of cynicism, possibly
influenced by the death of his own son in the First World War.
Canadian Headquarters Staff Painted by Sir William Newzam Prior
Nicholson Beaver