Nancy Culliford Spender (née Sharp, formerly Coldstream; 29 October 1909 – 20 June 2001) was a British painter, described on her death as "much underrated".
[6] In the late 1930s she had an affair with Louis MacNeice, illustrating two of his books and partially inspiring Autumn Journal.
She took up work as an art teacher, which she continued till 1977, teaching at schools in Lambeth and Bromley.
[7] Having little interest in commercial sales, she did not have her first solo exhibition until 1979, which was held in a West End gallery run by a friend.
[6] Both the Government Art Collection and the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford also have paintings by Spender.