Study for part of the upper
section of ‘Christ Preaching at Cookham Regatta’. Spencer’s brother
Gilbert recalled: ‘Those on the river collected themselves in groups,
according to rank, and floated about together, looking rather like gay
little floating islands’. In planning the picture, Spencer wrote in a
letter that ‘the whole of Cookham snobbery will be there.’
Lent by a private
collector |