Ruskin Spear

1911

British artist (1911-1990)

Ruskin Spear, CBE, RA was an English painter and teacher of art, regarded as one of the foremost British portrait painters of his day. He is the father of Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band member Roger Ruskin Spear.

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Airgraphs on Drying Drums in the Dark Room

Ruskin Spear Manchester Art Gallery
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Approach to Hammersmith Bridge

Ruskin Spear National Museum Cardiff
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At the Breakfast Table

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Austin Lane Poole

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Bedford Park

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Bernard Fergusson (1911–1980), Lord Ballantrae

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Cat on a Roof

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Cherries

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Children in the Snow

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Daydreaming, Portrait of the Artist's Wife

Ruskin Spear Beecroft Art Gallery
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Denis Richards (1910–2004), Principal of Morley College

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Director General Portrait – Charles Curran

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Director General Portrait – Sir Hugh Carlton Greene

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Dr Charles Ian Carr Bosanquet, Rector, King's College (1952–1963), Vice-Chancellor, University of Newcastle upon Tyne (1963–1968)

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Dr James Tait (1912–1998), Principal, Northampton College of Advanced Technology (1957–1966)

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Ecstasy

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Edward 'Teddy' Crisp Bullard (1907–1980)

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Hammersmith Bridge

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Harold Wilson

Ruskin Spear National Portrait Gallery
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Hollingberry's Canary

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Hopscotch

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John Moon, OBE

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John Primatt Redcliffe Redcliffe-Maud (1906–1982), Baron Redcliffe-Maud, KGB, Fellow and Dean, Master (1963–1976), Wearing the Robes of the Order of the Bath

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Joseph Forsyth Gimson (1896–1985), CBE, Managing Director of the Worcester Royal Porcelain Company

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Lew Grade, Baron Grade

Ruskin Spear National Portrait Gallery
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Lord Butler of Saffron Walden

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Low Tide

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Man in a Pub

Ruskin Spear Royal Academy of Arts
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Modigliani Reproductions with Paper Flowers

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Mother and Child

Ruskin Spear Leeds Art Gallery
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Robert Lewis Vigars

Ruskin Spear Guildhall Art Gallery
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Sir Alan Patrick Herbert

Ruskin Spear National Portrait Gallery
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Sir Harold Wilson (1916–1995), Prime Minister

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Sir John Dewhurst (1920–2007), President of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (1976–1978)

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Sir William Stewart Duke-Elder (1898–1978), GCVO, MD, DSc, FACS, FRCS, FRCP, FRS

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Sleeping Cat

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Spring at Rottingdean, East Sussex

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Spring in Hammersmith

Ruskin Spear Towner Eastbourne
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Sunday Morning

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The Curious Cat

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The Saloon Bar

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The Tea Shop

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The Tea Table

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Tremodrett, Cornwall

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1900c

Mother And Child

Ruskin Spear Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
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1935

Portrait of Mother

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1938

Siesta

Ruskin Spear Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre
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1939

China Clay Pits, St Austell

Ruskin Spear National Museum Cardiff
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1939

Rooftops

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1940

Winter

Ruskin Spear Southampton City Art Gallery
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1940s

A London Street

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1940s

December Afternoon

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1940s

Flowers on a Piano

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1940s

Interior with Nude

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1942

Patients Waiting outside a First Aid Post in a Factory

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1942

The Blackout

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1943

A Women's Voluntary Services Canteen at the Docks

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1943

Deaf Girls Working on the Construction of Petrol Tanks

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1943

In the Dope Shop of an RAF Mosquito Aircraft Factory

Ruskin Spear Rugby Art Gallery and Museum
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1943

Mackerel

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1943

Scene in an Underground Train: Workers Returning from Night Shift

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1943

Spring in Hammersmith

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1944

In the Dope Shop of a Mosquito Aircraft Factory

Ruskin Spear Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum
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1945

A Royal Ordnance Factory Explosion, Hereford

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1945

Spring

Ruskin Spear Art Gallery of New South Wales
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1946

Snow Scene

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1947

Spring Morning

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1947

Still life with fish

Ruskin Spear Art Gallery of South Australia
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1947

Woman Ironing

Ruskin Spear Towner Eastbourne
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1948

Still Life with Fish

Ruskin Spear Laing Art Gallery
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1948

Woman in a Red Jumper

Ruskin Spear Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre
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1950

Cherries and Pear

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1950

Hammersmith Broadway

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1950

Mr Hollingberry's Canary

Ruskin Spear Herbert Art Gallery and Museum
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1950

Mr Hollingbery’s Canary

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1950

Park Scene

Ruskin Spear Bristol City Museum & Art Gallery
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1950

Portrait of a Boy

Ruskin Spear Bristol City Museum & Art Gallery
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1950

Ravenscourt Park Station

Ruskin Spear Art Gallery of New South Wales
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1950

Summer street scene

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1950s

Snooker

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1951

Hammersmith under Snow

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1951

River in Winter

Ruskin Spear Glynn Vivian Art Gallery
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1951

Trouble in Paradise Row

Ruskin Spear Art Gallery of New South Wales
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1953

Edgar Douglas Adrian (1889–1977), 1st Baron Adrian, Master (1951–1965), Physiologist

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1953

Edgar Douglas Adrian (1889–1977), 1st Baron Adrian, OM, PRS

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1953

Paul Cairn Vellacott, Master (1939–1954)

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1953

Professor Sir Grahame Clark (1907–1995)

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1954

Ernest Marsh

Ruskin Spear Royal Academy of Arts
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1954

Haute Couture

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1955

Public Bar

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1955

Winter Evening

Ruskin Spear Glynn Vivian Art Gallery
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1956

'Unaccustomed as I am…'

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1956

Ruth Cohen, Principal (1954–1972)

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1956

Sir Laurence Olivier (1907–1989), as Macbeth, Stratford, 1955 (from 'Macbeth')

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1957

The Right Reverend Henry Albert Wilson, Member of Corpus Christi College, Bishop of Chelmsford (1929–1950)

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1958

London Whelk Woman

Ruskin Spear Herbert Art Gallery and Museum
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1959

Mr Drysdale

Ruskin Spear Worthing Museum and Art Gallery
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1960

Lord Ashby of Brandon (1904–1992)

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1960

Mr William Herbert Barratt, Chief Fire Officer, Somerset Fire Brigade (1948–1959)

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1960

Mrs Maud Drysdale

Ruskin Spear Worthing Museum and Art Gallery
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1960

Sir Herbert Butterfield (1900–1979), Fellow (1923–1955), Master (1955–1968)

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1961

Professor Carel Weight

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1961

Sir Robin Darwin (1910–1974)

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1962

Rodney Burn

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1962

Sid James

Ruskin Spear National Portrait Gallery
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1963

Alf and the Canary

Ruskin Spear Harris Museum
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1965

Brighton Beach, East Sussex

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1965

G. I. Taylor

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1965

Geoffrey Ingram Taylor (1886–1975)

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1965

William Leonard Ferrar (1893–1990), Principal (1959–1964)

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1966

Kenelm Dalby, OBE, Lord Mayor of Bristol

Ruskin Spear Bristol City Museum & Art Gallery
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1966

Mary Cavendish (1895–1988), Duchess of Devonshire in Chancellor's Robes

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1966

Sir Arthur Armitage (1916–1984), Fellow (1945–1958), President (1958–1970)

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1966

Sir Harold Wilson, Prime Minister (1964–1970 & 1974–1976)

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1968

George B. Primrose (1881–1969), 3rd Chairman of the Hamilton Trust (1946–1969)

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1968

Mrs Barbara Castle at the Royal Academy Banquet

Ruskin Spear Walker Art Gallery
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1968

Sir Robert Aitken (1901–1997), Vice-Chancellor

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1972

Alderman Gray

Ruskin Spear Harris Museum
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1972

John Primatt Redcliffe-Maud, Baron Redcliffe-Maud

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1974

David Pye (1914–1993)

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1974

True Blue

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1975

Channel Coast

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1977

Sir Cyril Astley Clarke (1907–2000)

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1979

The Old Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, 1943

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1981

Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir John Grandy (1913–2004), GCB, KBE, DSO

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1982

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1983

Dame Sheila Sherlock (1918–2001)

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1983

Professor Owen Chadwick (1916–2015), DD, OM, Master (1956–1983)

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1984

Francis Bacon

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1985

Sir David Willcocks (1919–2015)

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1986

Sir John Kendrew, FRS

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1987

Quintin McGarel Hogg, 1st Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone

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