Portrait of Stanley Spencer

Drawn while the artist was staying with Stanley and Hilda Spencer during their honeymoon in Wangford, Suffolk. Gilbert's pencil portrait of Hilda, drawn around the same time, is in a private collection.

Date: 1925
Inscriptions: Stan/ G. Spencer 1925
Tags: Portrait, Pencil, Works on paper
Medium: Pencil on paper
Height (mm): 298
Width (mm): 203
Location: Private collection
Exhibition History: FAS 1974 (56); Cookham Festival 1977 (21); The Ruskin Drawing School with Sydney Carline (Master 1922-1929) and his staff, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1977 (49); Lincoln, Usher Gallery, The Art of Hilda Carline, Mrs Stanley Spencer, 16 January - 7 March 1999 (72): this exhibition travelled to Exeter, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, 13 March - 7 May 1999; London, Kenwood House, 15 May - 11 July 1999; York, York City Art Gallery, 24 July - 29 August 1999; and to Swansea, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, 11 September - 7 November 1999
Provenance: The Estate of Stanley Spencer; Dreweatts 10 July 2025 lot 99