Mervyn Peake

http://www.mervynpeake.org/artist.html

In 1943, as a war artist, Peake was commissioned to paint the glass blowers at a Birmingham factory. A painting of this is being shown at the Manchester Art Gallery which I saw fairly recently at the Manchester City Art Gallery. This may be an interesting piece to refer to.

After this, he was sent to Germany and France to create a visual record of the victims of war, particulary the work he did based in Belsen.