#stanley spencer

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Stanley Spencer (British, 1891-1959), The Dustbin, Cookham, 1956. Oil on canvas, 76.8 x 51.3 cm. Royal Academy of Arts, London

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Stanley Spencer (UK 1891 - 1959)

Bellrope Meadow, Cookham, Berkshire  1936 

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Stanley Spencer (British/English, 1891-1959) • Self-portrait • 1914 • Tate Modern

Tate Gallery Card:

This is Spencer’s first self-portrait in oil paint, made when he was around 23 years old. He painted it over the course of nearly a year in the front bedroom of his family home in Cookham. Its dark, rich colours and strong sense of three dimensionality reflect his interest in 16th-century European painting. Spencer recalled that he was inspired to paint it in this way after seeing a reproduction of a head of Christ by Italian Renaissance artist Bernardino Luini (c.1480/82–1532).

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Stanley Spencer, 1927. Why paint a marrow bed? Well, aside from an exercise in form and light, in later life Stanley Spencer wrote: 'When I feel a certain degree of strength in my feelings and passions has been reached, I instinctively make my way into forms and things, anything belonging to the visible world, where I have found myself unable to get or have feelings for...I want then to transform some disliked thing into something I shall love, and so my kingdom and dwelling-place shall be enlarged.'

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Stanley Spencer Saint Peter escaping from prison

Oil on canvas, 36.5 x 36.5 cm, 1958

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Christ in the Wilderness – The Scorpion, by Stanley Spencer

From the Journal of George Fox [1647]

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Stanley SPENCER

Greenhouse and Garden 1926

Oil on canvas

An eccentric and highly imaginative individual, Spencer remained an independent artist, who set himself apart from any of the then fashionable groups. He attended the Slade School of Art along with David Bomberg, Paul Nash and Wadsworth among others.

Many of Spencer's visionary paintings and landscapes were inspired by life in his native town of Cookham-on-Thames, Berkshire. Here we see the view through the door of the greenhouse at 'Lindworth' Spencer's house in Cookham. The detailed still life in the foreground is a recurring device in his landscapes.

Spencer was encouraged to paint still life and flower paintings during the 1930s by his dealer Dudley Tooth. They were easy to sell and provided him with a regular income.

Ferens Art Gallery, Hull

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Stanley Spencer (British, 1891–1959) - Greenhouse and Gardens (1937)

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Stanley Spencer (British, 1881-1959) • Silent Prayer • 1951 • The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut

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Stanley Spencer Self Portrait with Patricia Preece 1937

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Stanley Spencer (British, 1891-1959), Greenhouse and Garden, 1937. Oil on canvas, 76.2 x 50.8 cm. Ferens Art Gallery, Hull

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Stanley Spencer - 1957 - Self-Portrait

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Sir Stanley Spencer (British, 1891 - 1959), Dinner on the Hotel Lawn, 1957.

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Stanley Spencer, Bellrope Meadow, Cookham, Berkshire, 1936, oil/canvas (Touchstones Trust, Rochdale)

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"Self Portrait with Patricia Preece", Stanley Spencer, 1937. Oil on canvas.