Gilbert Spencer, RA

1892-1979

A Farmyard at St Bees, Cumberland

Ref: 794

Signed l.r.: Gilbert Spencer

Watercolour over pencil, 33 by 53

 

Spencer moved to the Lake District in the early 1940s when the the Royal College of Art was evacuated to Ambleside during World War Two. Spencer was a tutor at the college during this time. The present watercolour depicts a farm to the edge of St Bees (also the site of a well-known school) near the Cumberland coast.

 

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