Greenwich Pier

Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson was born in Hampstead and studied at the St. John's Wood School of Art in 1907-8, at the Slade in 1908-12 and in Paris at the Acadmie Julian in 1912-13 where he shared a studio with Modigliani. Interested in Cubism and Futurism, he was one of the first English artists to be influenced by the new artistic developments in Europe. He was a founder member of the London Group in 1913, was an active member of the Rebel Art Centre in 1914 and was an official war artist during the First World War. He was elected to the New English Art Club in 1929, to the Royal Society of British Artists in 1932 and as an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1939. An accomplished painter, lithographer and etcher, Nevinson is best known for his war paintings and his urban and industrial subjects.

This view is taken from the Ship Hotel which stood at the end of Greenwich Pier, seen in the foreground. The hotel, which was famous during the nineteenth century as a rendez-vous for politicians and artists, was destroyed by a bomb in 1941. The Cutty Sark now occupies the site. Nevinson painted a number of Thames views from this point.