Beginning of an Event in History: The Tolpuddle Martyrs

Date: 1943
Inscriptions: lr: GILBERT SPENCER
Tags: Figures, Oil Paintings, Agricultural
Medium: Oil on canvas
Height (mm): 711
Width (mm): 914
Location: Private collection
Exhibition History: Leicester Galleries 1946 (91); NEAC winter 1947 (5); RA 1956 (122); NEAC Centenary Exhibition 1986 (152)
Provenance: Professor Ernest de Selincourt; Christie's London 17 October 1980 lot 94
Literature: RA Illustrated 1956 illus. p. 76; Spencer 1974 p. 136; Gough 2024 p. 237