Head of a Boy

This has been tentatively identified as the same sitter as Spencer's 1922 oil painting, A Reading Boy (Reading Museum and Town Hall), on the basis of facial similarity. The oil painting was exhibited at the NEAC, Summer 1922 (69). Spencer had exhibited 'Boy's Head', probably a drawing, a few months earlier at the NEAC, Winter 1922, which may be this drawing. As it is undated, a secure identification is not possible. 

Date: c.1920s
Inscriptions: lr: Gilbert Spencer
Tags: Portrait, Pencil, Works on paper
Medium: Pencil on paper                                                                                           Height (mm): 380                                                                                                    Width (mm): 280
Location: Private collection                                                                                       Exhibition History: Possibly NEAC Winter 1922 (169)
Provenance: Gifted by Richard Carline to Stan Smith, Head of Fine Art at the Ruskin School, Oxford; by descent.