Portrait of Lt. Peter Spencer Coppock, R.N.V.R.

Peter Spencer Coppock was Gilbert Spencer's son. Coppock wrote, 'In August 1945 I returned home and had a long leave and some of it was spent with Gilbert and Ursula at Tree Cottage.  After two and a half years on active service  I became a Lieutenant at twenty-two years of age, I have a fine drawing of myself in Naval uniform'. It was exhibited at the Leicester Galleries in 1949 along with a pencil portrait by Spencer of Coppock's new wife, Denise Wilson, who served in the W.R.N.S.

Date: 1945                                                                                                               Inscriptions: lr: Gilbert Spencer/ Dec 1945 lc: To Peter on his safe return from Gilbert Inscribed in background with the sitter's war record from when he first joined the Royal Navy on 23 September 1941 to 1945                                                                       Tags: Portrait, Pencil, Works on paper                                                                     Medium: Pencil on paper                                                                                           Height (mm): 510                                                                                                     Width (mm): 365                                                                                      Location: Private collection                                                                                       Exhibition History: Leicester Galleries 1949 (30)                                                     Provenance: The artist's family; by descent