timeline – Stanley Spencer Gallery

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.