Gilbert Spencer:
Summer Study, 1914
Framed (ref: 9244)

Pen, ink and pencil on paper

Inscribed by Richard Carline on the backboard and on a label to the reverse:

The Seven Ages of Man/Summer: pen and ink study for the oil painting (Winning Slade Composition Prize) by Gilbert Spencer, 1914.

Shows children seated on a bank with the Crown Inn, Cookham in distance, given to Richard Carline, 1925.

Tags: Gilbert Spencer pen and ink pencil children houses men 1.Master Drawings Gilbert Spencer

Provenance: Given by the artist to Richard Carline, 1927; The Artists Daughter; thence by descent

Exhibited: Artist-Collectors, Ernest Brown & Phililips, July August 1963; 

Gilbert Spencer Retrospective Reading Art Gallery 1970

Summer: Composition with Three Children Seated in a Meadow