Sir Stanley Spencer, C.B.E., R.A.

Sir Stanley Spencer, C.B.E., R.A.

Spencer studied at the Maidenhead Technical Institute 1907 and the Slade School of Art 1908–12 where he was awarded a scholarship in 1910 and the Summer Composition Prize in 1912. He exhibited at the Second Post-Impressionist Exhibition in 1912. Serving in the First World War, he was commissioned to paint a war picture for the Imperial War Museum. A member of the New England Art Club (1919-27), his first solo exhibition was held at the Goupil Gallery in 1927. Spencer was elected an Associate Royal Academician in 1932 and a Royal Academician in 1950. An Official War Artist during the Second World War, he had his first retrospective exhibition at Temple Newsam in Leeds in 1947. Spencer was knighted in 1959.