Stanley Spencer: Cottages Burghclere

While he was painting at the Sandham Chapel Stanley Spencer lived in the village. Cottages at Burghclere © The Estate of Stanley Spencer was painted between 1927 and 1930. It was bought by the Fitzwilliam in Cambridge in 1930 but at the moment is in an exhibition at Compton Verney called 'Stanley Spencer and the English Garden'; it's on until October 2nd and there is a book of the same name to accompany the exhibition.