Biography of sir stanley spencer museum
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Biography of sir stanley spencer museum
It was in this Thames side village that he grew up happy and secure as a member of a large and talented family. Stanley's early life in Cookham was the well spring of his inspiration and the village itself was an important background for many of his paintings.
Stanley Spencer was born at Fernlea, Cookham High Street on 30 June 1891, the tenth child of a family of eleven, of whom two died in infancy.
His father William was an organist and music teacher. Pupils coming for lessons and his older siblings practicing the piano or the violin created a musical atmosphere in which Stanley flourished.
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Music was always an important part of his life.
Two of his sisters ran a school in a shed in Fernlea garden and Stanley received his early education at their hands. His reading was based on the Bible, Bunyan and Milton.
He attended the parish church as well as his mother's Methodist chapel (now the Spencer Gallery).
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