1891 | Born 30 June, in ‘Fernlea’, High Street, Cookham. |
1907 | Studied art, Maidenhead Technical Institute. |
1908-12 | Student at the Slade School of Art; contemporaries included Nevinson, Roberts, Gertler, Bomberg & Paul Nash. Nicknamed ‘Cookham’. Awarded scholarship, Melville Nettleship & Composition Prizes. |
1912 | Exhibited in Roger Fry’s ‘Second Post-Impressionist Exhibition’. |
1915-18 | Enlisted RAMC, 1915. Stationed Beaufort War Hospital, Bristol. Posted to Macedonia, 1916. Volunteered for infantry, 1917. |
1919 | Official war picture, Travoys with Wounded Soldiers… (Imperial War Museum) Spencer meets Hilda Carline |
1920 | ‘The Last Supper‘ (Stanley Spencer Gallery). |
1925 | Married the artist Hilda Carline; 23 February, two daughters, Shirin & Unity.Shirin is born in November 1925 |
1927 | First one-man exhibition, Goupil Gallery. Created a stir with ‘The Resurrection, Cookham‘, 1924-6 (Tate). |
1927-32 | Mural decorations based on wartime experiences in Bristol & Macedonia, Sandham Memorial Chapel, Burghclere (National Trust). |
1929 | Meets Patricia Preece |
1930 | Unity born in May |
1932-38 | Lived in Cookham. 1932 elected Associate of the Royal Academy. |
1935 | Resigned from RA after rejection of two paintings by hanging committee. |
1937 | Divorced by Hilda. . |
1937 | Married Patricia Preece 29 May, but separated almost immediately. |
1939-1941 | Stayed and worked at The White Hart Inn, Leonard Stanley, Gloucestershire with George and Daphne Charlton. Started “Ship Building on the Clyde” series here. |
1940 | Commissioned to record the war effort by War Artists Advisory Committee: finished ‘Shipbuilding on the Clyde‘ series, 1946. |
1945-50 | Port Glasgow Resurrection series. |
1945-59 | Lived at Cliveden View, Cookham Rise. |
1950 | CBE; rejoined Royal Academy & elected RA. Hilda dies in November. |
1955 | Retrospective exhibition, Tate Gallery. |
1959 | Returned to ‘Fernlea’. Knighted. Died 14 December at Canadian Memorial Hospital, Cliveden, Berkshire. |