{"id":229043,"date":"2025-10-27T23:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T23:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/229043\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T23:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T23:32:08","slug":"stanley-spencers-christ-preaching-at-cookham-regatta-on-display-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/229043\/","title":{"rendered":"Stanley Spencer&#8217;s Christ Preaching at Cookham Regatta on display"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">An unfinished painting by a leading twentieth century British artist will be displayed at eye level for the first time in over ten years as part of a new exhibition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Sir Stanley Spencer is <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/articles\/bdD2yjxLjCWKkrDWxvqrKw\/not-bog-standard-art-creating-a-masterpiece-on-a-toilet-roll\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 iCaRzc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">synonymous with Cookham in Berkshire<\/a>, where he was born and lived and his most famous works are perhaps biblical scenes he set there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">His Christ Preaching at Cookham Regatta, which he had worked on for seven years before his death in 1959, is displayed at the Stanley Spencer Gallery in Cookham.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">One of his largest and most ambitious works, it is more than five metres long and will be displayed at eye level rather than from its normally elevated position between 6 November and 29 March 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Visitors to the Revealing Genius, Conserving Art: Stanley Spencer&#8217;s Final Masterpiece exhibition will also be able to learn more about Spencer&#8217;s technique.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">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&#8217;s creative process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Amanda Bradley Petitgas, the gallery&#8217;s curator, said: &#8220;At the end of Spencer&#8217;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An unfinished painting by a leading twentieth century British artist will be displayed at eye level for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-229043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}