Location: Ditchling, East Sussex, England
Subject: Portrait
Medium: Oils
Date: 1940
Dimensions: 60 cm x 49.5 cm
Knighton-Hammond has captured the expression of a soldier who has been through the trauma of war. The stress is still in the face. The subtle tone gives the spectator a sombreness of the feelings still within the soldier. The soldier’s eyes are quite haunting from what they had witnessed.