Portrait of Mrs Anne Carline

Painted in the Drawing Room at 47 Downshire Hill, Hampstead, while the sitter was writing a children's story, 'Quinshie Pan the Crab'. Spencer was a regular guest of the Carlines, a family of artists, at their Hampstead home throughout the 1920s. His brother Stanley married Anne (known as Annie) Carline's daughter, Hilda.

Date: 1930
Inscriptions: ur: Gilbert Spencer 1930
Tags: Portrait, Figures, Oil Paintings
Medium: Oil on canvas
Height (mm): 1145
Width (mm): 820
Location: Private collection
Exhibition History: Goupil Gallery 1932 (80); Bristol, Royal West of England Academy, 99th Annual Exhibition, 1051 (64); Reading 1964 (32); Cookham Festival, The Odney Club, Cookham 'The Spencers and Carlines in the 1920s', 1973;  Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, 'The Ruskin Drawing School under Sydney Carline', July-Sept 1977 (41); Reading Museum and Art Gallery, on loan; Morley College; Folkestone, The Arts Centre; York, City Art Gallery, 'Spencers and Carlines' Sept 1980-Jan 1981 (56)    Provenance: Mrs Heath; by whom given to Mrs H. Maclean, Gloucester; from whom purchased by Richard Carline, 1961; his executors' sale, Christie's London 12 June 1981 lot 56; Thos. Agnew & Sons Ltd, London; Messums, London (according to label on stretcher); Sotheby's, London 8 March 2008, lot 44; private collection; Roseberys London, 10 December 2025 lot 118                                                                                                       Literature: The Studio 103:466 (January 1932), p. 45, illus.; Spencer 1974 pp. 90-1