July 26 1916: New artwork purchased for Dundee collections

By Kirsty McIntosh

July 26 2016, 5:30am

July 26 2016, 5:30am

A work by Irish artist John Lavery was bought for Dundee.

Lavery specialised in images of war and the canvas brought to the city depicted wounded soldiers at The London Hospital in Whitechapel.

The First Wounded by John Lavery.

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