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Description: | The Royal Victoria Patriotic Asylum in Trinity Road was built for the orphaned daughters of soldiers and sailors of the Crimean War (1854-6).
When Alfred Withers painted the building during the First World War, it was in military use as the third London Territorial General Hospital. In May 1917, a hospital factsheet stated that it had '2,000 beds and has treated over 30,000 cases since the war broke out'.
A painter of rural and urban landscapes, Alfred Withers exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1882. He was secretary of the Society of 25 English Painters and involved with the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers. When he painted this work, he was on military service as an army sergeant. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Museum of London | Rights holder: | Digital image Museum of London | Subjects: | Public services London at War Art and Design | Temporal: | 1910-1920 | Source: | Museum of London | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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