Ruskin Spear (1911-1990) - Oil painting - "Young Girl"

Ruskin Spear (1911-1990) - Oil painting - "Young Girl" 

Portrait of a young woman, thought to be the artist's niece

57 x 51 cm 

 Signed in full in red lower right

unframed

Born in Hammersmith to a working-class family, Spear was the youngest of five children. Spear contracted polio at the age of two, and later attended the local Brook Green (PD) School, a London County Council school for the "Physically Defective".^[Awarded an LCC scholarship to the Hammersmith School of Art, Spear followed on with studies at the Royal College of Art, where he later was made a Royal Academician and tutor. Spear attended the local art school before going on to the Royal College of Art in 1930.

printed and typed exhibition label with full address - Ruskin Spear, 60 British Grove, London W4 2PU)