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Gilbert Spencer (1892 - 1979)
Portrait of RJA, 1951
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Gilbert Spencer (1892 - 1979)
Signed and dated 1919
Oil on panel, 10 x 12 in. (25.4 x 30.5 cm.)
Size:
Height – 25.4cm x Width – 30.5cm
Provenance: a gift from the artist to Mrs Millar, daughter of the
Hampstead landlord where Spencer was lodging, circa 1920; thence by
descent.
In a dark oak shallow wedge section frame with gilded inner slip.
This panel was painted directly from nature, and is typical of the
artist’s finest work en plein air. A possible identification for this
panel is Sashes Island in Cookham where Gilbert was born and grew up. A
painting of Sashes Island, dated 1919, is in the collection of Tate
Britain (N06021)
Thirteen
months younger than his more famous brother Stanley , Gilbert Spencer
studied at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, the Royal College of
Art (wood carving) 1911–12 and the Slade School of Fine Art (1913–15).
During
the First World War, Gilbert served with the R.A.M.C. initially at the
Beaufort Military Hospital in Bristol (with his brother Stanley, for a
short while) in Thessalonice and the Eastern Mediterranean 1915–19. He
returned to his studies at The Slade after the war (1919–20).
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Painter, especially of landscapes, draughtsman, teacher and writer, and brother of the painter Stanley Spencer. Born at Cookham, Berkshire. Spencer studied at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, woodcarving at the Royal College of Art, 1911-12, then with Fred Brown and Henry Tonks at the Slade School of Fine Art, 1913-20. Between 1915 and 1919 he served in the army. Spencer had his first one-man show at the Goupil Gallery in 1923; he also exhibited at the RA (he was elected RA in 1960), NEAC, (of which he was a member), Leicester Galleries, RSA, Redfern Gallery and many other venues. Although he produced notable wall paintings for Holywell Manor, Oxford, 1934-6, Spencer made his name as a landscape artist working mainly in the English southern counties. At various times he taught at the Royal College of Art, Glasgow School of Art and Camberwell, serving meanwhile as an Official War Artist, 1940-3. His book Stanley Spencer appeared in 1961 and his autobiography, Memoirs of a Painter, in 1974. A retrospective exhibition was held at Reading in 1964. The Tate and many other public collections hold his work. He sometimes just signed his work GS. He lived in Hampstead and towards the end of his life near Reading, Berkshire.
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