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Cambridge-educated, Brooke joined the Royal Navy at the outbreak of war. Publication of five patriotic war sonnets coincided with his death from septicaemia while on his way to join the campaign at Gallipoli. The most popular poet of the war, for some, Brooke symbolised a pre-war golden age, destroyed by the conflict. From Soldier by Rupert Brooke (1914): 'If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England. There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam, A body of England's, breathing English air, Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.' The young Rupert Brooke, handsome, well-bred and full of promise as a poet, sat to the German artist Clara Ewald when he was staying in Munich in spring 1911.
Title
Rupert Brooke
Date
1911
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 54.6 x W 73.7 cm
Accession number
4911
Acquisition method
Given by the artist's son, Professor P. P. Ewald, 1972
Work type
Painting
National Portrait Gallery, London
St Martin’s Place, London, Greater London WC2H 0HE England
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