Cottage Garden, Leonard Stanley
oil on canvas
20 x 30in. (50.8 x 76.2cm.)
Painted circa 1939
Provenance
with Arthur Tooth & Sons, London, 1940
Captain Sir R.A. Hornby, by whom purchased at the 1942 exhibition
Literature
K. Bell, Stanley Spencer A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings, London, 1992, no.288, p.464 (incorrectly illustrated and transposed with no.309)
Exhibited
London, Leicester Galleries, Stanley Spencer, Nov. 1942, no.41, as Leonard Stanley
Cookham, Stanley Spencer Gallery, Loan Exhibition, 1962, no.18
London, Royal Academy, Stanley Spencer, R.A., Sept.-Dec. 1980, no.206, p.176 (illustrated)
Lot Essay
Painted while staying with George and Daphne Charlton at the White Hart Inn, Leonard Stanley, Gloucestershire.