Houghton Place (Ampthill Square) (1912)

Spencer Frederick Gore

oil on canvas

Tate, London, Liverpool and St Ives

Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND (3.0 Unported) © Tate, London

Classification:

Painting

Materials:

Oil, Canvas

Physical Object Description:

Inscribed studio stamp ‘S.F. GORE’ bottom right (the studio stamp that was applied to all the unsigned pictures left in Gore’s studio when he died; he idea of stamping Gore’s pictures was Lucien Pissarro’s.

Dimensions:

51.5 x 61.4 cm

Accession Number:

N03839

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1924

Scheme:

Historic Purchase by Committee

Ownership history:

Mrs Mary Johanna Gore (1889-1969), the artist’s widow; from whom purchased by the Contemporary Art Society, 1916; presented to the Tate Gallery, 1927

Relationship:

Tate, London, Liverpool and St Ives Mary Johanna 'Mollie' Kerr, Mrs Gore

Since 1909 Spencer Gore became fascinated with his Camden Town surroundings. Most of his urban subjects were found within a few metres of his London home and were transformed in his pictures through his vivid use of colouring and strong sense of design. He moved from 31 Mornington Crescent to a first floor flat on nearby 2 Houghton Place in Spring 1912. This view, painted from his balcony window, shows Amptill Square. Ampthill Square and Houghton Place were demolished in 1968 to make way for a tower block known as the Ampthill Estate.

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