Portrait of Stanley Spencer

Details

Hilda Carline (1889-1950)
Portrait of Stanley Spencer
oil on canvas
24 x 18 in. (61 x 45.8 cm.)
Painted in 1923

Exhibited

Lincoln, Usher Gallery, The Art of Hilda Carline, Mrs Stanley Spencer, 16 January - 7 March 1999, no. 38: this exhibition travelled to Exeter, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, 13 March - 7 May 1999; London, Kenwood House, 15 May - 11 July 1999; York, York City Art Gallery, 24 July - 29 August 1999; and to Swansea, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, 11 September - 7 November 1999.

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Lot Essay

This is the only surviving oil portrait of Stanley Spencer by Hilda. Stanley Spencer regularly painted his own self-portrait:powerful, full-face poses. Hilda's portrait of her future husband seems to have stimulated Stanley to look anew at himself when he came to paint his 1923 self-portrait (private collection). In an atypical pose he leans his half-turned head against a wall and quizzically studies himself.

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