Theodore Botrel, French singer-songwriter Size:XL: 100 x 80cm Scenes at Westminster Hospital on

Scenes at Westminster Hospital on christmas Eve 1940

a rotund and florid man riding a cask of home brewed

A very strong cluster of flowers

W' In 1887

wearing a shawl and carrying a small basket over her arm

Theodore Botrel, French singer-songwriter Size:XL: 100 x 80cm Scenes at Westminster Hospital onTheodore Botrel, French singer songwriter, 1911. Botrel (1868 1925) was well known for his popular songs about his native Brittany. During the First World War he became France's official 'Bard of the Armies'. He had attempted to join the French and Belgian armies to fight but was rejected from both because of his age. A photograph from Album de Photographies, Dans L'Intimite de Personnages Illustres, 1850 1950, Editions MD, 22 Rue de L'Arcade, Paris