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Name this famous painting of WW1

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MorrisZapp · 11/11/2018 13:53

Help! I saw a wonderful painting in York gallery about ten years ago. It was huge, full life size figures. It showed soldiers on a railway platform preparing to depart for war. The painting has loads of detail in it, so lifelike and interesting. One of the soldiers looked Scottish and I think it may have been a Scottish regiment. There were other people in the picture, a prostitute, people selling stuff etc. It's not sad, more just touching because you know what they're getting into.

Anyone know this painting?

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JacquesHammer · 11/11/2018 13:55

Is it the one called Waterloo Station?

MartaHallard · 11/11/2018 14:00

Is it this one?
artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-return-to-the-front-victoria-railway-station-8079

I remember seeing it at York some years ago.

nameforthethread · 11/11/2018 14:03

goo.gl/images/75QVaz ?

nameforthethread · 11/11/2018 14:05

cross post marta

eddiemairswife · 11/11/2018 14:05

Return to the Front:Victoria Railway Station by Richard Jack. Could that be it?

MartaHallard · 11/11/2018 14:12

And x-post again with eddiemairswife!

I don't see a prostitute in that painting, though.

Clawdy · 11/11/2018 14:32

Has to be that one. Don't see the prostitute either.

MorrisZapp · 11/11/2018 19:58

Yes it's Return to the Front! Thank you!

I'm my memory, there was a prostitute.

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MartaHallard · 11/11/2018 21:24

Now I'm wondering if those are real people, and what their stories were, or if the artist invented them all.

At first I thought the woman in the middle was in nurses' dress, but on looking closer, I think that might be a widow's veil. Is the other woman her dil and the man (I think he's an officer) her son?

And is that mother, father and sister seeing off the man on the left? And what is in the girl's parcel?

MorrisZapp · 11/11/2018 22:25

I love the Scottish lad in the foreground. I can't look at him without imagining his mother.

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