The Windmill, Wangford (alt. title: Wangford)
Painted at Wangford, Suffolk, when Gilbert was invited to join his brother Stanley and new wife Hilda on their honeymoon. According to Gilbert, ‘We stayed in a cowman’s cottage and painted out of doors’ (Spencer 1961 p. 174). Each of the three artists painted a landscape during this time.
Date: 1925
Inscriptions: lr: G SPENCER
Tags: Landscape, Oil Paintings
Medium: Oil on canvas
Height (mm): 465
Width (mm): 670
Location: Government Art Collection 7874
Exhibition History: Goupil Gallery Spring Exhibition 1925 (97); Goupil 1929 (23); Leicester Galleries 1934 (6)
Provenance: Collection of politician Sir John Vaughan-Morgan (1905-1995; later Baron Reigate); by whom sold through Christie’s, London, 'Modern British Drawings, Paintings and Sculpture' sale, on 13 May 1966, lot 135; from which sale purchased by Leicester Galleries, London; from whom purchased by the Ministry of Works in July 1967.
Literature: Spencer 1961 p. 174; Gough 2024 illus. p. 194
Date: 1925
Inscriptions: lr: G SPENCER
Tags: Landscape, Oil Paintings
Medium: Oil on canvas
Height (mm): 465
Width (mm): 670
Location: Government Art Collection 7874
Exhibition History: Goupil Gallery Spring Exhibition 1925 (97); Goupil 1929 (23); Leicester Galleries 1934 (6)
Provenance: Collection of politician Sir John Vaughan-Morgan (1905-1995; later Baron Reigate); by whom sold through Christie’s, London, 'Modern British Drawings, Paintings and Sculpture' sale, on 13 May 1966, lot 135; from which sale purchased by Leicester Galleries, London; from whom purchased by the Ministry of Works in July 1967.
Literature: Spencer 1961 p. 174; Gough 2024 illus. p. 194