Stanley Spencer:
Portrait of Gilbert
Framed (ref: 9292)
Signed and dated 1909

Tags: Stanley Spencer pencil children illustration portraits 1.PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST Gilbert Spencer

Provenance: The Artist's daughter; thence by descent

Literature: Llewellyn, Sacha, and Paul Liss. Portrait of an Artist. Liss Llewellyn, 2021, p.167.

Gilbert Spencer was 16 in 1909 and had just started his formal training at The Ruskin School in Maidenhead. Stanley Spencer was completing his first year  at the Slade School of Fine Art in London, under Henry Tonks and his contemporaries  included Dora Carrington, Mark Gertler, Paul Nash, Edward Wadsworth, Isaac Rosenberg and David Bomberg.

Stanley and Gilbert Spencer, together with their father, William, was taken by Philip Morrell in 1914, 

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