Stanley spencer

Oil on canvas; 121.5 x 122.5 cm. Sir Stanley Spencer was one of the leading painters in England between the World Wars. He used an expressively distorted style of drawing and often drew upon Christian subjects. Spencer studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in London from 1908 to 1912, and he first exhibited at the New English Art Club. He frequently used his hometown, Cookham, as a setting for his paintings, many of which were based on biblical themes. From 1915 to 1918 Spencer served in…

Behind the scenes the Hepworth Wakefield's major new Stanley Spencer exhibition

“Amaryllis by Stanley Spencer 1951 (Private Collection). Chauntry Court (home of Dr Osmund Frank and his family), Maidenhead, Berkshire.”

Portrait of Kate Morrell

Rowborough, Cookham, Stanley Spencer. @HenryRothwell 

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Somerset House's partial reconstruction of Stanley Spencer’s Sandham Memorial Chapel I had buried so many people and saw so many dead that I felt that death could not be the end of everything. - Stanley Spencer There's a scene at the end of J'Accuse, the film made by Abel Gance in 1918, in which the…

The Bathing Poll, Stanley Spencer, British

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