Portrait of Sydney Carline 2, alt. title: Portrait of a Country Boy

This portrait of Sydney Council is closely related to a second portrait, now in a private collection. Spencer was close friends with the Carline family throughout the 1920s, and in 1926 shared lodgings with Sydney Carline at the Plough Inn, Little Milton, Oxfordshire.

Date: c. 1926-7
Inscriptions: ll: G. SPENCER
Tags: Portrait, Oil Paintings
Medium: Oil on canvas
Height (mm): 600
Width (mm): 445
Location: Private collection
Exhibition History: British Council, British Section UNESCO, International Exhibition 1945; Brighton Art Gallery and Museum, 'Wilfrid Evill Memorial Exhibition', 1965 (195)
Provenance: ?Wilfrid Evill; Sotheby's London 19 November 1980 lot 222