Study for Portrait of a Glaswegian Lady (alt. title: Portrait of a girl)

This is a study for Spencer's 1949 oil Portrait of a Glaswegian Lady, painted while he was teaching at the Glasgow School of Art. Unusually for Spencer, the sitter was a professional model. She is not wearing the choker in the finished portrait.

Date: 1949
Inscriptions: lr: Gilbert Spencer
Tags: Portrait, Pencil, Works on paper
Medium: Pencil on paper
Height (mm): 330
Width (mm): 290
Location: Private collection
Provenance: Sotheby's London 1 March 1989 lot 90