Study for Summer: three children seated in a Meadow
Date: 1914
Inscriptions: Inscribed by Richard Carline on the backboard and on a label to the reverse: The Seven Ages of Man/Summer: pen and ink study for the oil painting (Winning Slade Composition Prize) by Gilbert Spencer, 1914. Shows children seated on a bank with the Crown Inn, Cookham in distance, given to Richard Carline, 1925
Tags: Figures, Pencil, Works on paper
Medium: Pencil, pen and wash
Height (mm): 500
Width (mm): 400
Location: Liss Llewellyn
Exhibition History: Leicester Galleries, 'Artists as Collectors', July 1963; Reading 1964 (99); FAS 1974 (51) illus. b&w; Abbot Hall 2024
Provenance: Given by the artist to Richard Carline, 1927; thence by descent
Literature: Gough 2024 pp. 57-60, illus p. 58
Inscriptions: Inscribed by Richard Carline on the backboard and on a label to the reverse: The Seven Ages of Man/Summer: pen and ink study for the oil painting (Winning Slade Composition Prize) by Gilbert Spencer, 1914. Shows children seated on a bank with the Crown Inn, Cookham in distance, given to Richard Carline, 1925
Tags: Figures, Pencil, Works on paper
Medium: Pencil, pen and wash
Height (mm): 500
Width (mm): 400
Location: Liss Llewellyn
Exhibition History: Leicester Galleries, 'Artists as Collectors', July 1963; Reading 1964 (99); FAS 1974 (51) illus. b&w; Abbot Hall 2024
Provenance: Given by the artist to Richard Carline, 1927; thence by descent
Literature: Gough 2024 pp. 57-60, illus p. 58