Writing on the ‘evanescent’ nature of gardens, Humphry Repton asked rhetorically why ‘a wreath of short-lived roses’ delights us more than ‘a crown of amaranth, or everlasting flowers’.

How the painter kept an eye on the radical – but found his greatest inspiration in the most quotidian of places By Michael Prodger Spencer Gore may not have lived for art but he died for it. In late ...

Frederick Gore's tree in 'Elm Park Gardens, Autumn' echoes his father's work Credit: Photo: Bridgeman Art Library SIR ... Frederick Gore's father, Spencer Gore, died at the age of 34 in ...

and established themselves as the vanguard of early-20th-century British art. The painters, including Walter Sickert, Harold Gilman, Charles Ginner and Spencer Gore, depicted London life in a ...

the son of the Camden Town painter Spencer Gore, regarded by most of his contemporaries as the leader of the modern art movement in London before the First World War. Though Spencer Gore died just ...