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Francis Spear:
Still life with plaster maquette of Madonna and child, circa 1925
Unframed (ref: 6333)

Oil on board

Tags: Francis Spear oil panel still lifes Golden Generation RCA

Provenance: Simon Spear, the artist’s son

Francis Howard Spear (1902-1979) was a printmaker and a stained glass artist who attended the Royal College of Art with Bawden, Ravilious in the mid 1920's and later went onto teach at the School. The V&A holds examples of his stained glass and a number of designs for stained glass, and his coloured lithographic print Horse Race. The plaster cast of the Virgin and Child was cast by Spear and is still extant.