Portrait of a Glaswegian Lady (alt. title: Glasgow Portrait)

Unusually for Spencer, the sitter in this portrait was a professional model. A pencil study of the sitter's head is in a private collection. In the Gilbert Spencer archive (Arts University Bournemouth), there is a photograph of a pencil sketch of the roof and Glasgow skyline used in the background, dated 1949. See also the related pencil study of the model's head.

Date: 1949
Inscriptions: ll: GILBERT SPENCER
Tags: Portrait, Oil Paintings
Medium: Oil on canvas
Height (mm): 750
Width (mm): 620
Location: Private collection
Exhibition History: Leicester Galleries 1949 (21); Bristol 1950; RA 1951 (498); Abbot Hall 2024
Provenance: The artist, by descent; Liss Llewellyn
Literature: RA Illustrated 1951 p. 33; Spencer 1974 p. 161; Gough 2024 illus. p. 269