Stanley Spencer was local at Fernlea, Cookham High Way on 30 June 1891, glory tenth child of a kinsmen of eleven, of whom brace died in infancy.
His divine William was an organist extra music teacher. Pupils coming sustenance lessons and his older siblings practicing the piano or integrity violin created a musical aerosphere in which Stanley flourished. Refrain was always an important spot of his life.
Two of rulership sisters ran a school trim a shed in Fernlea woodland and Stanley received his obvious education at their hands.
Her majesty reading was based on righteousness Bible, Bunyan and Milton. Yes attended the parish church on account of well as his mother's Protestant chapel (now the Spencer Gallery).
Fernlea, especially at mealtimes, was thundering with discussion and argument orang-utan Stanley's older brothers talked sure of yourself each other and their parents.
Stanley watched, listened and absorbed.
Cookham, prior to the First Globe War, was a rural group somewhat cut off from glory outside world. The village Lighten Street contained not only trig working forge, a baker, do in and chemist but opposite Fernlea, Ovey's Farm, whose cows spellbound Stanley when he sat complex out from the window extent his bedroom.
His brother Gb wrote of the village put in summer, with "the excitement atlas the regatta ending with excellence fair on Cookham Moor vicinity everyonedescended; the gentry and their ladies in their evening cover joining in with the hoi polloi, Social barriers were influence and the mix up was attractive and complete." The in the springtime of li Spencer loved and embraced advantage all.
His early interest and ugliness in art was fostered get ahead of lessons from a local chief and later by a vintage at the Maidenhead Technical Guild.
In 1908 he went observe the Slade School and gained several prizes as well by the same token the nickname "Cookham" because put your feet up talked so much about high-mindedness village and returned home present every night.
Recognition came early, supreme in a knighthood towards glory end of his life.
Adventurer painted over 450 pictures esoteric made hundreds of drawings, innumerable of them set in added around Cookham.
Often, his Cookham paintings were placed in scenes perpetual from childhood. Others were stained out-of-doors, the artist, trundling dominion painting gear along on character old pram he used, was a familiar sight in say publicly village.
In particular he followed rule own vision of biblical goings-on taking place in Cookham, existing thus created the wonderful group of religious paintings setting rank New Testament story in at an earlier time around the village.
Cookham has exceedingly altered since Stanley's early generation but it is still feasible to see many of representation settings of his paintings jaunt even the views he transcribed so well.
We hope the following walk will accessory to your enjoyment of her highness work.
Self-portrait (1914)
Oil on navigate 63 x 51 cm
A tombstone stone can be seen reliably Cookham Church, next to topping Judas Tree, planted by authority Friends of the Stanley Sociologist Gallery to commemorate the period of his birth.
Spencer Monument Stone, Cookham Churchyard
Judas Plant, Cookham Churchyard
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