
Grasmere and Red Bank
If this large painting is the 'Redbank' mentioned in Spencer's memoirs (1974, p. 136), it was painted from the balcony of Ladywood, looking down through Banerigg Wood, across Grasmere towards Red Bank.
Date: c. 1941-3
Inscriptions: Gilbert Spencer
Tags: Landscape, Oil Paintings
Medium: Oil
Height (mm): 965
Width (mm): 1168
Location: Unknown
Exhibition History: RA 1945 (248); possibly Leicester Galleries 1946 (101) as 'Grasmere through Trees'; Reading 1964 (56) as 'Grasmere with Redbank from Ladywood'; Grasmere 1987 (153) as 'Grasmere: from Ladywood to Red Bank'
Provenance: Lord and Lady Chorley
Literature: Spencer 1974 p. 136