Winter Scene at Upper Basildon, circa 1948
Gilbert Spencer (1892-1979) was chiefly a landscape artist, although he also painted portraits, genre scenes, and murals. He primarily painted the landscapes of the southern English counties of Berkshire, Oxfordshire, and Dorset.
Born at Cookham, Berkshire thirteen months after his brother, the painter Stanley Spencer, he studied at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, the Royal College of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art. He had his first one-man show at the Goupil Gallery in 1923. From 1940-43, he was appointed an official war artist. Spencer taught at the Royal College of Art and was Head of Painting both at Glasgow School of Art and Camberwell. He published the biography on Stanley Spencer in 1961 and his autobiography Memoirs of a Painter (1974).