Title: Country Road
Medium: Oil on board
Style: Rural Scene/Realist
Size: 8" x 10"
Frame Size: 13" x 15"
Age: 1960s
Condition: Great,
good condition for its age. no damage
Signature: A. Spencer

Artist: Augustus Spencer (1860 - 1924)
Augustus Spencer was active/lived in England. Augustus Spencer is known for rural landscape painting, arts and crafts, teaching.

He was a member of The Aireville Group an officially recognized body of talent which thrived during the period encompassing the Arts & Crafts movement. Many of the artists were inspired by Thomas Clifton who was the Head of the Keighley School of Art from 1889. Many of the artists were extremely talented and went on to study at the Royal College of Art, the Royal Academy and the Slade and included, Augustus Spencer, Silsden, Arthur Reginald Smith, Skipton, Fred C Jones, Bradford and Bingley sculptor Herman Cawthra.

Augustus Spencer became the principal of the Royal College and there is a stained glass window in his honor in Silsden Parish Church. Sir Swire Smith, an MP in the late 1800's, owned a mill in Silsden at which a young Augustus Spencer, the son of a blacksmith, worked part time. Smith caught Spencer painting butterflies and thought him to have talent, subsequently, he offered to pay his fees at the Keighley School of Art.

Spencer came from a family of musicians as well. He was a good pupil and went on the become a good teacher and was appointed in 1885 to the headship of the School of Arts at Coalbrookdale, known as the cradle of England's industrial revolution. From there he moved three years latter to the headship of the Leicester School of Art before becoming Principal of the RCA ( Royal Academy of Arts.)

The School of Design's mission was that of training the designers for industry, although in reality it became a finishing school for fine artists and a training school for art teachers and principals. By 1909 the industrial design movements in Germany and several other countries were more successful at integrating artist into industry than England. That year Augustus Spencer reported to the Board of Education that " It is a well-known fact that trade is leaving the country and falling into the hands of the Germans and Dutch".

Other Instructors at the RCA demanded that industrial art instruction at the college and throughout the country should be made more compatible with industrial requirements Its fair to say that Spencer was indeed an important contributor to art and art teachings.

Augustus Spencer died on October 3, 1924.

Great for collection or home decoration..

Provenance:
Collection from Estate in New Jersey

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