Study of an imaginary 'Chapel'

The present work is one of a number of imagined chapels (c.f. lot 3). Here Spencer has assembled some of his favourite early works, from left to right as follows:- The Betrayal [second version], (Ulster Museum, Belfast), 1922-23, (Bell 91); Christ Carrying the Cross, (Tate Gallery, London), 1920, (Bell 38); Zacharias and Elizabeth (Private Collection), 1913-14, (Bell 16); (?) Joachim among the Shepherds, (National Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand), 1913, (Bell 14); The Resurrection, Cookham, (Tate Gallery, London), 1924-26 (Bell 116) on end wall; The Centurion's Servant, (Tate Gallery, London), 1914, (Bell 21); John Donne Arriving in Heaven, (Private Collection), 1911, (Bell 10); Mending Cowls, Cookham, (Tate Gallery, London), 1915, (Bell 26); Travoys with Wounded Soldiers Arriving at a Dressing Station at Smol, Macedonia, (Imperial War Museum, London), 1919, (Bell 1919). The predella panels below which Spencer has drawn in pencil refer to the following paintings, from left to right: Swan Upping at Cookham, (Tate Gallery, London), 1915-19 (Bell 27); The Last Supper, (Stanley Spencer Gallery, Cookham), 1920, (Bell 34); Apple Gatherers, (Tate Gallery, London), 1912-13 (Bell 12); and The Nativity, (University College, London), 1912, (Bell 11).