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Charles Spencelayh; “The Connoisseur”. Painted oil on canvas board, within a swept gilt gesso frame. Exhibited at Rochester when Spencelayh was residing at Bozeat near Wellingborough in Northamptonshire.
The work 5 in x 4 in
o.s:8 ¼ in x 7 3/8 in
Charles Spencelayh (1865-1958) was a founder member of the Royal Society of Miniature Painters and contributed a postage stamp sized portrait of George V to Queen Mary for her famous Doll’s House.
Born in Rochester, the youngest of 11 children, he was given his first box of paints at the age of eight and began copying Old Masters. He was a popular artist in his time and was at his best perhaps during the 1920’s under the patronage of wealthy Mancunian cotton marchant; Joseph Levy.
Widowed in 1937, he remarried and settled in Northamptonshire from where his new wife came, and lived happily at Bozeat until his death in 1958. Following his funeral at St. Mary the Virgin in Bozeat he was returned to Kent and buried with his first wife in Chislehurst Cemetery.


 

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    • Price: £1,350.00
    • €1,615 Euro
    • $1,756 US Dollar
  • Location: London