The Rat Catcher
Date: 1922
Inscriptions: Gilbert Spencer
Tags: Portrait, Figures, Oil Paintings
Medium: Oil on canvas
Height (mm): 1448
Width (mm): 819
Location: Southampton City Art Gallery 1426
Exhibition History: Goupil 1923 (35) as 'Portrait of a Man'; Goupil 1929 (26); Goupil 1932 (65); Brussels International Exposition 1935; Exeter Art Gallery: Contemporary Paintings from Southampton Art Gallery, 1955; SSG, 'A Brush with History: Stanley Spencer and Modern British Art', 30 March - 5 November 2023 (19)
Provenance: Purchased with the assistance of the Frederick William Smith bequest fund, 1953
Literature: Fleuron 1926 illus. pl. 8; Art Work December 1926-Feb 1927 p. 270; The Studio magazine, 103:466 (January 1932), p. 44, illus.; Gough 2024 p. 116, illus. p. 115
Inscriptions: Gilbert Spencer
Tags: Portrait, Figures, Oil Paintings
Medium: Oil on canvas
Height (mm): 1448
Width (mm): 819
Location: Southampton City Art Gallery 1426
Exhibition History: Goupil 1923 (35) as 'Portrait of a Man'; Goupil 1929 (26); Goupil 1932 (65); Brussels International Exposition 1935; Exeter Art Gallery: Contemporary Paintings from Southampton Art Gallery, 1955; SSG, 'A Brush with History: Stanley Spencer and Modern British Art', 30 March - 5 November 2023 (19)
Provenance: Purchased with the assistance of the Frederick William Smith bequest fund, 1953
Literature: Fleuron 1926 illus. pl. 8; Art Work December 1926-Feb 1927 p. 270; The Studio magazine, 103:466 (January 1932), p. 44, illus.; Gough 2024 p. 116, illus. p. 115