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Stanley Spencer 1891-1959 is in Painters.
On 30th June 1891 Stanley Spencer was born at Cookham, Berkshire. He was the eight surviving child of William Spencer and fAnna Caroline Slack.
From 1908 to 1912 Stanley Spencer (age 16) studied at the Slade School of Art under Henry Tonks. So attached to Cookham most days he would take the train back home in time for tea. It even became his nickname.
1912-13. Stanley Spencer (age 20). Self-portrait.
1914. Stanley Spencer (age 22). Self-protrait.
1915-19. Stanley Spencer (age 23). "Swan Upping at Cookham".
On 23rd February 1925 Stanley Spencer (age 33) and Hilda Anne Carline (age 35) were married.
Around 1931. Stanley Spencer (age 39). "Turk’s Boatyard Cookham".
Around 1932. Stanley Spencer (age 40). "Terry’s Lane, Cookham".
1933. Stanley Spencer (age 41). Portrait of [his future wife] Patricia Preece (age 38).
Patricia Preece: On 22nd January 1894 she was born. In May 1937 Stanley Spencer and Hilda Anne Carline were divorced. A week later he married Patricia Preece. On 19th May 1966 she died.
1937. Stanley Spencer (age 45). "Greenhouse and Garden".
Around 1937. Stanley Spencer (age 45). "Family Group: [his wife] Hilda (age 47), Unity and Dolls". Hilda being the artist's wife and Unity their child.
In May 1937 Stanley Spencer (age 45) and Hilda Anne Carline (age 47) were divorced. A week later he married Patricia Preece (age 43).
In May 1937 Stanley Spencer (age 45) and Patricia Preece (age 43) were married in Maidenhead a week atter his divorce from Hilda Anne Carline (age 47). Her lover Dorothy Hepworth was present at the wedding (left in photo). She and Hepworth then went to to St. Ives for the "honeymoon" while Spencer remained in Cookham to complete a painting. He, apparently, in his wife's absence slept with his former wife Hilda Anne Carline. Preece, as a consequence, refused to have sexual relations with him. He signed over his house to Preece. Preece and Hepworth evicted him from the house in 1938.
Around 1939 Stanley Spencer (age 47) and Daphne Gribble began an affair after the breakdown of his second marriage
1939. Stanley Spencer (age 47). "The Woolshop". Model Daphne Gribble.
1939. Stanley Spencer (age 47). "Zacharias and Elizabeth".
All About History Books
The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
1940. Stanley Spencer (age 48). "Daphne".
1940. Stanley Spencer (age 48). "Farm Pond, Leonard Stanley".
1941. Stanley Spencer (age 49). "Shipbuilding on the Clyde: Burners".
1941. Stanley Spencer (age 49). Portrait of Daphne Gribble.
1945. Stanley Spencer (age 53). "The Resurrection: The Reunion of Families".
On 1st November 1950 [his former wife] Hilda Anne Carline (age 60) died. She was buried at Holy Trinity Church, Cookham [Map].
1951. Stanley Spencer (age 59). Portrait of the artist's niece Daphne Spencer.
1953. Stanley Spencer (age 61). Portrait of Daphne Gribble.
All About History Books
The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
1956-57. Stanley Spencer (age 64). "Dinner on the Hotel Lawn".
1958. Stanley Spencer (age 66). "Miss Ashwanden in Cookham". The artist's last completed painting of his dying neighbour aged seventeen.
12th July 1959-16th. Stanley Spencer (age 68). Self-portrait. Painted over five days from July 12 to July 16; his final self-portrait.
On 14th December 1959 Stanley Spencer (age 68) died at the Canadian Red Cross Memorial Hospital on the Cliveden estate. His ashes were buried at Holy Trinity Church, Cookham [Map] in the same grave as his first wife [his former wife] Hilda Anne Carline: "To the memory of Stanley Spencer Kt. CBE RA, 1891–1959, and his wife Hilda, buried in Cookham cemetery 1950. Everyone that loveth is born of God and knoweth God: He that loveth not knoweth not God, for God is love."
On 19th May 1966 [his former wife] Patricia Preece (age 72) died.