Lot 8

In good stable condition, possibly revarnished and professionally restored with some overpainting evident in lower left quadrant when examined under UV light.


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Estate of Late Baldwin Spencer, Adelaide
Lawsons, Sydney, Fine Paintings, Drawings & Prints, 22 November 1983, lot 136
Private collection, Sydney

Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer married Mary Elizabeth Bowman in January in 1887 in London, she became Lady Baldwin Spencer & they had two daughters. They all survived him, Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer died on 1st July 1929.

Two portraits of Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer painted by William Beckwith McInnes can be found in The University of Melbourne Art Collection and the collection of Exeter College, University of Oxford.