Silver How from Ladywood (alt. titles: A View from a Window at Ladywood, Garden at Ladywood)
In 1940, the Royal College of Art, where Spencer was a teacher, was evacuated to Ambleside in the Lake District. Spencer and his family stayed at Ladywood, the home of Professor Ernest de Selincourt, to whom he gifted this painting. It depicts a view of Silver How across Grasmere, very different from the gentle southern English countryside Spencer was accustomed to painting.
Date: c. 1942
Inscriptions: lr: GILBERT SPENCER
Tags: Landscape, Oil Paintings
Medium: Oil on canvas
Height (mm): 350
Width (mm): 460
Location: Private collection
Exhibition History: Probably Leicester Galleries 1943 (17) as 'Silver How from Ladywood'; probably Grasmere 1987 (152); Harry Moore-Gwyn, London 'After the Art Quake', 9-22 March 2022 (26)
Provenance: gift from the artist to Professor Ernest de Selincourt of Ladywood; Lord and Lady Morris (probably); with Harry Moore-Gwyn; private collection.
Literature: Gough 2024 p. 238
Date: c. 1942
Inscriptions: lr: GILBERT SPENCER
Tags: Landscape, Oil Paintings
Medium: Oil on canvas
Height (mm): 350
Width (mm): 460
Location: Private collection
Exhibition History: Probably Leicester Galleries 1943 (17) as 'Silver How from Ladywood'; probably Grasmere 1987 (152); Harry Moore-Gwyn, London 'After the Art Quake', 9-22 March 2022 (26)
Provenance: gift from the artist to Professor Ernest de Selincourt of Ladywood; Lord and Lady Morris (probably); with Harry Moore-Gwyn; private collection.
Literature: Gough 2024 p. 238