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Statesmen of World War I
Statesmen of World War I is an oil on canvas painting by Sir James Guthrie, completed in 1930, shortly before Guthrie's death. It was commissioned by South African financier Sir Abraham Bailey, 1st Baronet to commemorate the politicians and statesmen of Britain and its allies who held office during the First World War. It was donated to the National Portrait Gallery in 1930, shortly after it was completed.
Background.
Bailey commissioned two other commemorative portraits, "General Officers of World War I
. A Forecast Written in the Year 1763" (preface and notes) (1763; republished 1899)
- "England in the Nineteenth Century" (1900)
- "History of the Peninsular War, Vol. I: 1807–1809" (1902)
- "Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Roman Republic" (1902)
- "History of the Peninsular War, Vol. II: Jan. 1809-Sep. 1809" (1903)
- "The Peninsular War, 1808–14", in "The Cambridge