Durweston (alt. titles: Landscape at Durweston, Village Houses)

This village landscape, recently identified as Durweston in Dorset, was painted during Spencer's annual summer painting holiday in the area. Mill Pond, Durweston (1927, Ashmolean Museum) was painted during the same trip.

Date: 1927
Inscriptions: lr: GILBERT SPENCER/ 1927
Tags: Landscape, Oil Paintings
Medium: Oil on canvas
Height (mm): 457
Width (mm): 559
Location: Private collection
Exhibition History: Probably Goupil 1929 (27); Goupil Gallery Summer Exhibition 1929; Ottoline, Gallery Edward Harvane, Londonn, 27 October-27 November 1971 (65); Hampstead One, Gallery Edward Harvane, London, 15 March-13 April, 1973 (9); Abbot Hall 2024
Provenance: Christie's London, 12 December 2014 lot 65; Liss Llewellyn
Literature: Gough 2024 p. 194