Frank Spenlove-Spenlove

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Frank Spenlove-Spenlove (1866- ? ) was an English landscape and figure painter, born in Stirling, New Brunswick. After 1886 he exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy, London. Among his best-known paintings are:

  • "Funeral in Holland in Winter" (gold medal, Paris salon, 1901)
  • "Too Late" (Luxembourg, Paris)
  • "The Little White Cross" (Manchester Gallery)
  • "In the Shadow of the Church" (Manchester Gallery)
  • "Vespers, Holland" (1906, Glasgow Gallery)
  • "Grey of the Morn" (Guildhall, London)
  • "Grey of Evening" (Hull Gallery)
  • "The Hill-Top" (1912)

All of his paintings show his peculiar skill in the rendering of an atmosphere. He founded a successful school of modern art at Beckenham, Kent, and is also known as an author.