But enter this compact building and Stanley Spencer’s paintings of World War I invade our eyes on every side. The austere interior is filled with images of vulnerable young men, either ...

This painting is one of a series of eight panels on the theme of the Glasgow shipyards. It was painted by Stanley Spencer during World War Two, from 1940 onwards. All the works show a fascination ...

Three wall murals including the Resurrection, here in a major back-lit reproduction, could not be moved for this unprecedented visit to London, an exhibition Stanley Spencer ... The paintings were ...

The work of British artist Stanley Spencer (1891-1959 ... the light effects being reminiscent of Caravaggio. Spencer’s first war duty was as a medical orderly at the Beaufort War Hospital ...

He's regarded as one of the greatest war artists of all time. Stanley Spencer, who lived in Cookham in Berkshire, celebrated how people in our region contributed to the war effort during the First ...

and paintings by his friend and contemporary, Henry Lamb. Stanley Spencer: Heaven in a Hell of War runs from 7 November to 26 January. Stanley Spencer Heaven in a Hell of War Somerset House Doctor ...

Stanley Spencer painted his first oil painting when ... He exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 1938, was commissioned as an official war artist, and re-joined the Royal Academy in the 1950s.

At 90, Shirin Spencer can still recall her father Stanley painting one of his masterpieces - the World War One murals at the chapel in Burghclere in Hampshire. Now she's looking forward to new ...

We all know Stanley Spencer, or think we do ... But with Spencer, as with his contemporary Paul Nash, war had the effect on the artist not of darkening his pictures of England, but of making ...

It was here that British artist Stanley Spencer was born in 1891, and it was here that he lived until his death in 1959. It was here, too, that the celebrated visionary absorbed the ideas and ...

The latest addition is a show of war artist Stanley Spencer's murals in Somerset House. In this three-room exhibition, the opening acts mainly as a scene-setter with largely preparatory drawings.

Three wall murals including the Resurrection, here in a major back-lit reproduction, could not be moved for this unprecedented visit to London, an exhibition Stanley Spencer ... The paintings were ...