- Object type
- Prints and Drawings
- Date
- Production: c. 1940s
- Artist
- Elsie Gledstanes (1891 - 1982)
- Subject(s)
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Gender
War
Portraiture
Nursing
St John Ambulance Brigade (1887 - 1968)
Uniform - Associated event
- War: Second World War (1 September 1939 - 2 September 1945)
- Dimensions
- Height x width x depth (framed size): 560 x 455 x 20mm
- Materials and technique
- Pastel on paper
- Provenance
- Purchased from Sim Fine Art, 2025
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of James Drabble MStJ and Clare Drabble, 2025
- Catalogue number
- 2025.4
St John Ambulance Brigade Nurse
The identity of the sitter of this painting is unknown, but she is very recognisably wearing the uniform of a St John Ambulance Brigade nurse. It was painted by Elsie Gledstanes who worked as an auxiliary ambulance driver during the Second World War, which is likely when she created this pastel portrait alongside other individual and group portraits of women active in war duties.