Artist. Born Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson in Hampstead, son of Henry Nevinson. He studied at the Slade School of Art alongside Stanley Spencer and Mark Gertler. In WW1 he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps, which inspired a lot of his paintings.
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Christopher Nevinson
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