Frank Spenlove-Spenlove

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Frank Spenlove-Spenlove (1868–1933) was an English landscape and figure painter, although born in Stirling, Scotland.

[edit] Work

From 1886, Spenlove-Spenlove exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy, London.

In 1896, he founded a successful school of modern art at Beckenham, Kent, called the Yellow Door School of Art.

He is also known as an author.

All of Spenlove-Spenlove's paintings show his peculiar skill in the rendering of an atmosphere. Among the best known are:

• Funeral in Holland in Winter (gold medal, The Salon, Paris, 1901)
• Too Late (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
• The Little White Cross (Manchester Art Gallery)
• In the Shadow of the Church (Manchester Art Gallery)
• Vespers, Holland (1906, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow)
• Grey of the Morn (Guildhall, London)
• Grey of Evening (Ferens Art Gallery, Kingston upon Hull)
• The Hill-Top (1912)

[edit] References

• Frank Spenlove-Spenlove at brown.edu

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