When and where was Stanley Spencer born?

Answer 1

Birth nameStanley SpencerBorn30 June 1891(1891-06-30)

Cookham, EnglandDied14 December 1959(1959-12-14) (aged 68)

Cliveden, Buckinghamshire EnglandNationalityEnglishFieldPaintingTrainingMaidenhead Technical Institute; The SladeWorksThe Resurrection, CookhamPatronsLouis and Mary BehrendAwardsKnighted in 1959

Sir Stanley Spencer (30 June 1891 - 14 December 1959) was an English painter. Much of his greatest work depicts Biblical scenes, from miracles to Crucifixion, happening not in the Holy Land but in the small Thames-side village where he was born and spent most of his life. He referred to Cookham as "a village in Heaven." Fellow-villagers frequently stand in for their Gospel counterparts, lending on occasion Christian teachings an eerie immediacy.

Spencer was born and spent much of his life in Cookham in Berkshire. His father, William Spencer, was a music teacher. His younger brother, Gilbert Spencer (1892-1979), was a talented painter of landscapes.

From 1908 to 1912, Spencer studied at the Slade School of Art at University College, London under Henry Tonks and others. His contemporaries at the Slade included Dora Carrington, Mark Gertler, Paul Nash, Edward Wadsworth, Isaac Rosenberg and David Bomberg.[1] So profound was his attachment to the village of his birth that most days he would take the train back home in time for tea. It even became his nickname: his fellow student C.R.W. Nevinson dubbed him Cookham, a name which Spencer himself took to using for a time.