VARIOUS ARTISTS | A commemorative album comprising approximately fifty two watercolours, drawings and manuscripts accompanied by a collection of letters relating to the commission for 'The War Seal Foundation'

Compiled by Sir Oswald Stoll and thence to the Sir Oswald Stoll Foundation with whom it has remained

Helen Allingham An Old Dorset Cottage

Robert Anning Bell Mary and a Kneeling Angel

Lewis Baumer A Flapper

Bertha Bennet Burley Portrait of a Lady in a Wide-brimmed Hat

Laurence Binyon autographed manuscript poem, 'Nothing is enough'

Robert Bridges autographed manuscript poem, 'The British wounded'

Charles Buchel Head of a Jester

Edgar Bundy The Dead Soldier

Frank Cadogan Cowper Head of a Girl

Francis Carruthers Gould A Stag at Bay

Sir George Clausen The Farmyard

The Hon. John Collier The Land Baby

H. Cowan The Broken Doll

C. Dallcousins Nemorosa Zacynthos

Allan Davidson A Buccaneer

Joseph Farquharson Sheep in the Snow

Hanslip Fletcher Rheims Cathedral

Stanhope Alexander Forbes A Farm-girl

T. Friedensen Battleships in the North Sea

Harry Furness Peace is a Long Time Coming!

John Galsworthy autographed manuscript poem, 'Picardy'

D. Green A River Estuary

Arthur Hacker Pro Patria

George Harcourt Fairy Tales

Thomas Hardy autographed manuscript sonnet, 'In Time of War and Tumults'

Joan Hassall Lost

G.P. Huntley An Out of Work Actor

Garth Jones The Tired Warrior

Robert Talbot Kelly The Nile with Feluccas and Figures on the Shore

Margaret Kemp Welch A Middle-Eastern River Landscape

Henry John Yeend King Blackberries

Rudyard Kipling autographed manuscript poem, 'For all we have and are'

John Liston Byam-Shaw Cupid Playing with Bellows and a House of Cards

Charlotte Mansfield autographed manuscript short story, 'The Call'

Sir David Murray The Loch-end

John Oxenham autographed manuscript poem, 'Natalis - His True Birthday'

Louis Parker autographed manuscript poem, 'The Ballade of Equality'

Bernard Partridge Vitre: Les Ramparts

E. T. Read A Scandal in the Stone Age

Janet Robertson Martin aged 4½ months

Sir William Rothenstein Portrait of Thomas Hardy

Charles Sims Cupid

Florence Small Mother and Child

Harold Speed Portrait of a French Officer

W. H. Squire autographed manuscript of musical score, 'Album Leaf'

Henry Scott Tuke Young Man Holding a Pewter Tankard

Sir Leslie Ward 'SPY' Child in the Field at Night

W. Welch Knaresborough

Wilton Williams When They See Me They'll Run Like ----!

William Lionel Wylie Bringing in a Torpedoed Hospital Ship

Louis Zaphire-Harvey calligraphic manuscript

Briton Riviere, Lion and Lioness on Rocks 

Founded in the aftermath of the First World War, the Sir Oswald Stoll Foundation was established to support troops returning home from the front with physical and mental injury. Set up by theatre empresario and philanthropist Sir Oswald Stoll, who was at the forefront on the debate on how best to support wounded veterans, the charity provided housing in Fulham that remains used to this day. Alongside housing support, the charity continues to provide outreach services, ‘drop-ins’ and support in finding work for veterans after leaving the armed forces.

In 1917 Sir Oswald set about compiling ‘an Album of original contributions received from the foremost Artistes, Painters, Musicians and Authors of the day’, with the intention that the book be reproduced in limited edition of fifty copies, sold to benefit the charity. Although Stoll was met with a phenomenal response, sadly the project never came to fruition due to spiralling costs, and instead the album was kept by the charity.