Stanley Spencer
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Sir Stanley Spencer was an English painter. Shortly after leaving the Slade School of Art, Spencer became well known for his paintings depicting Biblical scenes occurring as if in Cookham, Berkshire,
Self-portrait, 1959
Self-portrait (1914)
Swan Upping at Cookham (1915–1919) Oil on canvas, Tate Britain (T00525)
Travoys Arriving with Wounded at a Dressing-Station at Smol, Macedonia, September 1916 (Imperial War Museum)
Cookham
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Cookham is a historic Thames-side village and civil parish on the north-eastern edge of Berkshire, England, 2.9 miles north-north-east of Maidenhead and opposite the village of Bourne End. Cookham for
Stanley Spencer
…English painter. Shortly after leaving the Slade School of Art, Spencer became well known for his paintings depicting Biblical scenes occurring as if in Cookham, Berkshire, the small village beside the River Thames where he was born and spent much of his life. Spencer referred to Cookham as "a village in Heaven…
Holy Trinity parish church
A Bronze Age palstave axehead, found in Cookham and dated to c. 3500 – c. 1500 BCE
A sestertius of the Roman Emperor Caracalla, found in Cookham and dated to c. 210 – c. 213
Print of Fred Walker's (1840–1875), Our Village (Cookham), exhibited at the Water-colour Society's Exhibition, London, in 1873