Darsie Japp

[1] Japp studied at the Slade School of Art between 1908 and 1909, where he became friends with his fellow student Stanley Spencer and would often visit him in his home at Cookham in Berkshire.

[2] Japp specialised in landscape and figure paintings, and exhibited with the New English Art Club of which he became a member in 1919.

The Army refused to release either of them until after the Armistice, when Japp, following a visit to the Western Front, began work on the painting The Royal Field Artillery in Macedonia, Spring 1918 (1919), which is now part of the collection of the Imperial War Museum.

[3] Shortly after the war, Japp gave up painting professionally to farm and to breed race horses in Berkshire.

[4] Henry Lamb painted a group portrait of Japp and his family in 1928, which is now in Manchester Art Gallery.