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Description: | This is one of a series of 39 paintings produced by Stephen
Chaplin based upon his memories of his childhood during the
Second World War in Orpington.
During 1940 the young Stephen
Chaplin was an in-patient at Farnborough Hospital while he had
his knee operated on. To relieve the boredom he and the other
patients sang popular songs, one of which was 'I've got
sixpence' from which this painting gets its title.
Stephen
Chaplin was born in 1934 and lived in Orpington from 1938 until
1956. He studied art at the Slade School of Fine Art in London
and then art history at the Courtauld Institute. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Bromley Museum | Rights holder: | Stephen Chaplin | Subjects: | London at War Art and Design | Temporal: | 30.6.2006 | Source: | Bromley Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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