View of Egdon Heath from the Crest of Clouds Hill looking North

Spencer stayed at Clouds Hill in July 1925 as the guest of T. E. Lawrence, in rather makeshift circumstances, and recounted the episode at length in his Memoirs (pp. 78-84). The painting is built into the panelling above a window, and was photographed in situ in 1935.

Date: 1925
Inscriptions: lr: Gilbert Spencer 1925
Tags: Landscape, Oil Paintings
Medium: Oil on canvas
Height (mm): 584
Width (mm): 635
Location: Clouds Hill, Dorset, The T.E. Lawrence Collection (National Trust) NT628438
Provenance: Given to the National Trust with the house by Mr A. W. Lawrence, as a memorial to his brother, T.E. Lawrence, in 1938
Literature: Spencer 1974 pp. 78-84; Gough 2024 pp. 192-3