with The Leicester Galleries, London;
Wilfrid A. Evill, October 1949, by whom bequeathed to Honor Frost, 1963
Exhibition History:
London, Leicester Galleries, Exhibition of works by Gilbert Spencer, October 1949 (illustrated as Miss S.J. Taylor, no. 35);
Hampstead, The Home of Wilfrid A. Evill, Contemporary Art Society, Catalogue of the Greater Portion of a Collection of Modern English Paintings, Watercolours, Drawings and Sculpture belonging to Wilfrid A. Evill, March 1955 (illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, no. 78);
London, The Home of Wilfrid A. Evill, Contemporary Art Society, Pictures, Drawings, Watercolours and Sculpture, April – May 1961 (illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, part IV, section 1, no. 9);
Reading, Reading Museum and Art Gallery, The Retrospective Exhibition of the Work of Gilbert Spencer, June – July 1964;
Brighton, Brighton Art Gallery, The Wilfrid A. Evill Memorial Exhibition, June – August 1965 (illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, no. 190);
Woking, The Lightbox, The Ingram Collection: Colourful Lives of Artists, 30 April – 30 June 2013;
London, The Sammy Ofer Centre, London Business School, London|Forward Facing, 26 September 2017 – 18 July 2018
The younger brother of Sir Stanley Spencer, Gilbert Spencer was a painter of landscapes, portraits and genre scenes. He was also a muralist. The pencil study of Miss Taylor shows Spencer’s skilled use of line and gentle tonal cross-hatching.
