Gertrude Spencer-Stanhope
Gertrude Spencer-Stanhope (1857–1944) was an English sculptor and painter. She was the niece of
Life and career
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Mary Gertrude Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope was the eldest of 11 children.[1] Her mother was born Elizabeth Julia Buxton, the daughter of Sir John Jacob Buxton. Her father was Sir Walter Spencer Stanhope, who owned Cannon Hall in Barnsley from 1873 to 1911.[2]
The Cannon Hall estate had been in possession of the Spencer family, and, later, the
Works
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Gertrude Spencer-Stanhope exhibited paintings during the period 1886–1909 at both provincial and London galleries, but these works are not now well-known.[5]
She produced perhaps only three bronze sculptures. In early 2006, the bronzes entered public ownership as part of the
Spencer-Stanhope is also thought to have been the artist who painted the panels for the pulpit in Christ Church, Isle of Dogs. The work shows the influence of her uncle's pulpit panels in St. James the Great Church, Flockton, Wakefield; two panels appear to be imitations, with the third taking a more definably original approach. (The painted mural over the chancel arch is tentatively credited to John Roddam.) Gertrude had given the pulpit, installed in 1907, in memory of her brother Edward, but the particular connection of the Spencer-Stanhope family to Christ Church is unknown.[7]
References
- ^ Her brothers were John Montague, Walter, Edward Collingwood, Hugh Robert, and Philip Bertie; sisters were Cecily Winifred, Margaret Isabel, Alice Mildred, Winifred Julia, and Mary (who died at birth).
- A.M.W. Stirling, Coke of Norfolk and His Friends (New York 1908), vol. 2, pp. 530–531; Charles Tiplady Pratt, A History of Cawthorne (Barnsley 1882), p. 36.Sir Walter was the elder brother of John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope, but Gertrude is sometimes identified erroneously as the artist's sister rather than his niece.
- A.M.W. Stirling, titled A Painter of Dreams and Other Biographical Studies (London: Lane, 1916) and including a biographical sketch of John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope.
- ^ ArtMagick Exhibition Listings Archived 2011-06-14 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved August 21, 2008.
- ^ "New acquisitions at Cannon Hall Museum: Bronzes by Gertrude Spencer-Stanhope Barnsley," Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council archive[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Museum adds to its fine arts exhibitions", November 11, 2005.
- ^ Parish of the Isle of Dogs, Christ Church history and art leaflet[permanent dead link].