Walking Tour - Hampstead and the Slade School of Art

In the early 20th century several important artists who studied at the Slade School of art lived and / or socialised in Hampstead. We will take a walk in the footsteps of the artists such as Mark Gertler, Stanley Spencer and C. R.W. Nevinson who socialised in Downshire Hill with the artistic Carline family.  We discuss their loves and hates and their reactions to the First World War. Their tutor Henry Tonks described this generation of artists as "a crisis of brilliance" because of how they were so talented and yet so affected by the First World War and their own personal entangled relationships.