Portraits of Women by British Artist Stanley Spencer 1891-1959

Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) Daphne Charlton


Although Stanley Spencer's portraits are brutally realistic & stripped of allegorical references, he wrote, "Every thing or person other than myself is a future potential part of myself, or a revealer of and an agent in revealing unknown parts of myself: unknown husbands, wives, lovers, worshippers, never before seen and only known by a persistent desire or passionate longing, supported by a kind of consciousness of their existence."  Stanley Spencer, out of Sermons by Artists (1934)

Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) Daphne by the Window in Northern Ireland

Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) Hilda, Unity, and Dolls  The artist's wife.

Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) Miss Elizabeth Wimperis

Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) Lady Slesser

Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) Mrs Frank

Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) Country Girl Elise

Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) Daphne Spencer

Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) Hilda Carline

Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) Daphne Charlton

Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) Hilda Carline

Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) Miss Ashwanden

Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) Patricia Preece, 1933

Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) Mrs C P Grant

Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) Mrs Marjorie Metz

Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) Rachel Westropp

Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) Mrs Linda Few Brown

Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) The Sisters

Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) Portrait in a Garden

Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) The Psychiatrist

Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) Anny Lewinter Frankl

Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) Portrait of a Young Woman

Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891-1959) Mr and Mrs Baggett 1956

Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891-1959)  Patricia at Cockmarsh Hill 1935