The Master Farmer
The subject of this painting, ‘Mr Barton in the Fields’ was introduced to Spencer by Vera Lane Poole as a potential subject on account of his ‘good head’. Spencer made a drawing for Vera, and at the farmer’s request, this copy for him, for which he thanked the artist with a gift of eggs and port poured into a cow’s horn made from one of his own cows.
Date: c. 1932
Inscriptions: lr: G SPENCER
Tags: Agricultural, Figures, Oil Paintings
Medium: Oil on board, squared for transfer
Height (mm): 362
Width (mm): 248
Location: Private collection
Exhibition History: Possibly Goupil 1932 (84)
Provenance: With Rutland Gallery, London, where purchased by Robin Clifford; R.M. Pryor, by May 1974; James A. Crabtree, acquired from the above in April 1981; with Leicester Galleries, London; with New Grafton Gallery, London, December 1983; anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 21 July 2005, lot 21; Christies, London 12 July 2012 lot 407.
Literature: Spencer 1974 p. 70
Date: c. 1932
Inscriptions: lr: G SPENCER
Tags: Agricultural, Figures, Oil Paintings
Medium: Oil on board, squared for transfer
Height (mm): 362
Width (mm): 248
Location: Private collection
Exhibition History: Possibly Goupil 1932 (84)
Provenance: With Rutland Gallery, London, where purchased by Robin Clifford; R.M. Pryor, by May 1974; James A. Crabtree, acquired from the above in April 1981; with Leicester Galleries, London; with New Grafton Gallery, London, December 1983; anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 21 July 2005, lot 21; Christies, London 12 July 2012 lot 407.
Literature: Spencer 1974 p. 70