Melbury Beacon
Melbury Beacon was Spencer's Mont Sainte-Victoire. The hill with its distinctive profile was visible from the garden of Spencer's home at Burden's Farm, near Twyford, Dorset. He painted it at least five times during the 1930s, sometimes on its own, sometimes with Burden's Farm in the foreground.
Date: c. 1932-4
Inscriptions: lr: Gilbert Spencer
Tags: Landscape, Oil Paintings
Medium: Oil on canvas
Height (mm): 610
Width (mm): 915
Location: Southampton City Art Gallery 546
Exhibition History: Leicester Galleries 1934 (31); Reading 1964 (47)
Provenance: Purchased with the assistance of the National Art Collections Fund, 1939
Literature: Gough 2024 illus. p. 190-1
Date: c. 1932-4
Inscriptions: lr: Gilbert Spencer
Tags: Landscape, Oil Paintings
Medium: Oil on canvas
Height (mm): 610
Width (mm): 915
Location: Southampton City Art Gallery 546
Exhibition History: Leicester Galleries 1934 (31); Reading 1964 (47)
Provenance: Purchased with the assistance of the National Art Collections Fund, 1939
Literature: Gough 2024 illus. p. 190-1