Gilbert Spencer RA (4 August 1892 – 14 January 1979) was a British painter of landscapes, portraits, figure compositions and mural decorations.

The family had little spare money and the formal education of their children was sketchy, but what they lacked in schooling was made up for by the talk they heard between their elders at meal times.

His other teachers at the Slade included Philip Wilson Steer, Ambrose McEvoy and Tonks’ Assistant in Drawing, Derwent Lees.

[4] Spencer painted portraits, genre scenes and murals but was primarily a landscape painter, focusing his attention on vistas of Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Dorset and the Lake District.

[9] Gilbert Spencer married a former Slade School of Art student, Margaret Ursula Bradshaw (1898–1959) on 31 December 1930 at Holy Trinity Church, South Kensington, London.

Thereafter, at the invitation of his friends and patrons the Martineau family, he retired to Walsham-le-Willows, Suffolk, and died at Lynderswood Court, Black Notley, Braintree, Essex, on 14 January 1979.

He might well be called the John Constable of the twentieth century.” [12] Gilbert was commissioned in 1959-60 by Victor Gollancz to write a posthumous biography of his brother, Stanley Spencer (1961); he also wrote an illustrated autobiography Memoirs of a Painter (1974).

In April 2024 Yale University Press published 'Gilbert Spencer: The Life and Work of a Very English Artist', by Paul Gough, with contributions by Sacha Llewellyn and Amanda Bradley Petitgas [13]