Head of a young British soldier

In April 1940, Spencer was awarded a short-term contract by the War Artists’ Advisory Committee, with a brief to depict scenes of military training in England. He made a number of studies of Home Guard troops during this time. 

Date: 1940
Inscriptions: lr: Gilbert Spencer/ 1940
Tags: Portrait, Pencil, Works on paper
Medium: Pencil on grey paper
Height (mm): 323
Width (mm): 244
Location: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford WA1945.84
Provenance: Presented by E.H.W. Meyerstein, 1945