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Gilbert Spencer RA (4 August 1892 – 14 January 1979); British painter of landscapes, portraits, figure compositions and mural decorations. He worked in oils and watercolor. He was the younger brother of the painter Sir Stanley Spencer.
Born at Cookham, Berkshire, on 4 August 1892, 13 months after his more famous brother Stanley Spencer, Gilbert Spencer was the eighth son and youngest of the 11 children of William Spencer, organist and music teacher, and his wife, Anna Caroline Slack. The family had little spare money and the formal education of their children was sketchy, but what they lacked in schooling was made up for by the talk they heard between their elders at meal times.
...Spencer painted portraits, genre scenes and murals but was primarily a landscape painter, focusing his attention on vistas of Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Dorset and the Lake District.
He became a member of the N.E.A.C. in 1919 and in 1923 held his first solo exhibition at the Goupil Gallery.
From 1934-6 he created a series of murals depicting the Foundation Legend of Balliol College for Holywell Manor, Oxford.
During the Second World War he served as an official war artist (1940–1943).
He was elected an Associate Royal Academician (A.R.A) in 1950 and a full member in 1959. He temporarily resigned his membership of the Academy in 1968, before rejoining in 1971. The artist was widely exhibited during his lifetime and examples of his work are held in major public and private collections, including the Tate Gallery and the Royal Academy.
...Gilbert published a posthumous biography of his brother, Stanley Spencer (1961), and his autobiography Memoirs of a Painter (1974).
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