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Stanley Spencer

English painter (1891–1959)

This article is about the artist. For the balloonist, see Stanley Spencer (aeronaut).

Sir Stanley Spencer
Self-portrait, 1959
Born	(1891-06-30)30 June 1891 Cookham, England
Died	14 December 1959(1959-12-14) (aged 68) Cliveden, Buckinghamshire, England
Education
Known for	Painting, drawing
Notable work	The Resurrection, Cookham
Awards	RA 1950; CBE 1950; Knighted 1959
Patron(s)	Louis and Mary Behrend

Sir Stanley Spencer, CBERA (30 June 1891 – 14 December 1959) was an English painter. Shortly after leaving the Slade School of Art, Spencer became well known for his paintings depicting Biblical scenes occurring as if in Cookham, the small village beside the River Thames where he was born and spent much of his life. Spencer referred to Cookham as "a village in Heaven" and in his biblical scenes, fellow-villagers are shown as their Gospel counterparts. Spencer was skilled at organising multi-figure compositions such as in his large paintings for the Sandham Memorial Chapel and

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Stanley Spencer

Famous English painter of the 20th century. Born and lived most of his life in Cookham, near Maidenhead.

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Born and lived most of his life in Cookham, near Maidenhead

Born

June 30th 1891

Died

December 14th 1959

Biography

Sir Stanley Spencer was born in a house on Cookham High Street, the eighth surviving child of Annie and William Spencer. His father was a music teacher and his childhood was full of music, literature and conversation.

From 1908 to 1912 Spencer attended the Slade School of Fine Art in London, the country’s premier art school. He picked up the nickname ‘Cookham’ because of his habit of commuting back to the village every day rather than staying in London. His contemporaries at the Slade included Dora Carrington.

Before the Great War, Cookham was still a rural idyll. On the High Street were a butchers, bakers, chemists and forge. Ovey’s Farm was opposite his childhood home and young Stan would watch the cows come into the yard from his bedroom window. The brewhouse at the end of the street formed the backdrop for

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Stanley Spencer was born in Cookham in 1891. He went to the Slade School of Fine Art in 1908 under the inspirational Professor Henry Tonks. In 1912 he returned to Cookham which he saw as 'a kind of earthly paradise' and began work on the many paintings deeply rooted in his unique spiritual vision which featured the local countryside, houses and gardens in the village and local residents, friends and family.

At the onset of the First World War he enlisted in the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) and in 1916 was posted to Macedonia. He was never an official war artist but the most powerful record of his wartime experiences is the series of 19 paintings in the purpose-built Sandham Memorial Chapel at Burghclere, Hampshire, on which he worked almost continuously between 1926 and 1932.

In 1925 he married the artist Hilda Carline and they had two daughters: Shirin and Unity. Already recognised as a major talent for his work at the Sandham Chapel, his great painting The Resurrection, Cookham (set in Cookham churchyard and painted between 1924 and 1926) established his reputation. He bega