Stanley Spencer

Stanley Spencer (1891-1951) was an English artist who studied at the Slade School of Art (1908-1912). He is well-known, in particular, for his religious paintings which often represent Biblical scenes occurring in his native village of Cookham. Two of his most famous works are connected to wartime: the Sandham Memorial Chapel in Burghclere, which reflects on his experience of the First World War, and the cycles of paintings of shipyards at Port Glasgow, commissioned by the War Artists’ Advisory Committee during the Second World War.