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Mark Gertler was born in East London in 1891, the son of Jewish Austro-Polish immigrants. He showed early promise as an artist and enrolled at the Slade School of Fine Art in 1908, where he was a contemporary of the painter and draftsman Stanley Spencer Gertler won several major prizes and scholarships while at the Slade, and there met the friends, particularly Dora Carrington, who were to have a profound influence on him.
In 1914 Gertler met Lady Ottoline Morrell and became part of her literary and artistic set at Garsington. He was a conscientious objector during World War I, and one of his best-known paintings, Merry-Go-Round (Tate Britain, London), was painted in 1916 as a reaction to the honors of that conflict. Gertler was in love with Carrington, but eventually they married others. Ill health, financial worries, and emotional turmoil led to ...