'Oh! Death will find me' (from poem by Rupert Brooke)
Christopher Mark Le Brun, PRA (b. Portsmouth 1951)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1995 - 1996
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
180 x 170 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Antony Private Collection, Cornwall
NT 353073
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, 'Oh! Death will find me' by Christopher Mark Le Brun (b. Portsmouth 1951). Commissioned by Sir Richard Carew Pole, 1995-96 and inspired by this sonnet of 1909 by Rupert Brooke (1887 - 1915): Oh! Death will find me, long before I tire Of watching you; and swing me suddenly Into the shade and loneliness and mire Of the last land! There waiting patiently, One day I think, I'll feel a cool wind blowing See a slow light across the Stygian tide, And hear the Dead about me stir, unknowing, And tremble. And I shall know that you have died, And watch you, a broad-browed and smiling dream, Pass, light as ever, through the lightless host, Quietly ponder, start, and sway, and gleam - Most individual and bewildering ghost! - And turn and toss your brown delightful head Amusedly, among the ancient Dead.
Provenance
Commissoned by Sir Richard Carew Pole and on loan to the National Trust from the Trustees of Antony
Credit line
Antony, The Carew-Pole Collection
Makers and roles
Christopher Mark Le Brun, PRA (b. Portsmouth 1951), artist