The Kensingtons at Laventie is a large oil painting on glass by Eric Kennington completed in 1915 that depicts a First World War platoon of British troops.

Kennington completed the painting having been invalided out of the British Army due to wounds suffered on the Western Front in early 1915.

Kennington claimed to have travelled some 500 miles while painting the picture in walking from the back of the glass to the front to check the composition.

[3][1] The style of the painting has been compared to the Pre-Raphaelites, Pieter Breughel, and religious icons in the Russian Orthodox tradition; and its composition bears resemblance to Uccellos Battle of San Romano.

The painting was widely praised for its technical virtuosity, iconic colour scheme, and its "stately presentation of human endurance, of the quiet heroism of the rank and file",[6] showing the war "in all its squalor and glory".

"[4] In May 2015, the Royal Mail issued a stamp featuring a detail from the painting as part of a First World War commemorative set.