An unfinished painting by a leading twentieth century British artist will be displayed at eye level for the first time in ...

Stanley Spencer painted his first oil painting when he was 19. “Two Girls and a Beehive” depicts the daughters of the local butcher standing beside a beehive in Spencer’s beloved home town of Cookham ...

The sketchbook includes this drawing of the Pied Piper of "Hamlin" An unpublished sketchbook containing the earliest known drawings by artist Stanley Spencer and a short story is to go on display in ...

Sir Stanley Spencer CBE (1891-1959) proposed to his fellow painter Hilda Carline six times, repeatedly postponed the wedding ...

The chapel is home to 19 artworks by Sir Stanley Spencer who wanted visitors to "see them as God intended and this means no ...

Sir Stanley Spencer was not merely an eccentric English oddity, but a major artist who linked thematically and stylistically to his era and so captured the changing nature of the times and places ...

The work of British artist Stanley Spencer (1891-1959) has undergone a resurgence of interest in the art world recently. Long viewed by some as a provincial joke, several artists and critics now claim ...

A new exhibition at the Stanley Spencer Gallery brings together the artist's outdoor paintings for a lesson in putting together garden features Madonna Lilies ...

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Two sorts of people should make a point of seeing 'Stanley Spencer: Heaven in a Hell of War': those who love the art of the eccentric English painter and those who hate it. For his innumerable fans, ...

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