Busk How, Little Langdale

This landscape has been recently identified as Busk How, Little Langdale, exhibited at the Leicester Galleries in 1946.  Around the same time, Spencer also painted Busk, Little Langdale. In a handwritten note to the exhibition catalogue, he distinguished them as 'lane' and 'farm'; the present painting can be identified as 'farm'. It is possible that Spencer had misheard the name of the farmhouse, as it is known as Busk House, not Busk How. The farm is now cared for by the National Trust.

Date: c. 1941-5                                                                                                     Inscriptions: ll: GS
Tags: Landscape, Oil Paintings
Medium: Oil on canvas                                                                                         Height: 350mm                                                                                                         Width: 455mm
Location: Private collection
Exhibition History: Leicester Galleries 1946 (92) as 'Burkhow, Little Langdale'
Provenance: Listed in 1949 Leicester Galleries catalogue as being at Cape Town; private collection.