The Pond, Stadhampton (alt. title: The Mill at Stadhampton)

One of a group of landscapes painted while Spencer was staying in lodgings at the Plough Inn, Little Milton, Oxfordshire, with his friend and fellow artist, Sydney Carline. Stadhampton is the next village to Little Milton. The art critic Paul Konody admired how Spencer was able to capture 'much of the peaceful, serene spirit of the English countryside' in this painting, rejecting the 'obviously picturesque' in favour of 'the uncompromising hard lines of a new slate roof' (Daily Mail, 22 April 1927).

Date: 1926
Inscriptions: lr: G Spencer 1926
Tags: Landscape, Oil Paintings
Medium: Oil on canvas
Height (mm): 457
Width (mm): 660
Location: Private collection
Exhibition History: Goupil Gallery Salon October-November 1926 (110); 'British Art', George Petit Galleries, Paris, April 1927; Goupil 1929 (13)
Provenance: Given by the artist to Eric Fitch Daglish, and by descent; Christie's, London 12 December 2008 lot 49
Literature: Spencer 1974 p. 87