Visitors to the Revealing Genius, Conserving Art: Stanley Spencer’s Final Masterpiece exhibition will also be able to learn more about Spencer’s technique.
Olivia Leake, a conservator in her final year of study at the Courtauld Institute of art, will work in the gallery and examine the canvas to reveal Spencer’s creative process.
Amanda Bradley Petitgas, the gallery’s curator, said: “At the end of Spencer’s life, in Christ Preaching, he returned to his youthful evocations of religious visions in Cookham, creating a work that is both triumphant and nostalgic.”