SPENCER FREDERICK GORE (BRITISH 1878-1914)
BEEHIVE IN TOWN GARDEN
oil on canvas
36.5cm x 46cm (14 3/8in x 18in)
Roland, Browse & Delbanco, London;Dr David Brown, Nairobi. 
Exhibited:Southampton City Art Gallery, on loan from Dr David Brown.This work formerly belonged to Dr David Brown (1925-2002), who began his career as a veterinarian in Kenya. In 1970, he retrained and became one of the leading modern and contemporary art curators and art historians of his generation in Great Britain, holding posts at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh and the Tate Gallery in London. Brown began collecting modern British art whilst in Africa, on the basis of photographs, and his acquisitions came to fill his home in Brixton. Following his death in 2002, significant bequests of works were given to his former places of employment, as well as to Southampton City Art Gallery (to whom he lent this painting and which has the most important representation of the Camden Town Group outside the Tate), Swindon Art Gallery and the British Museum, London.