A newspaper
account of the 'tangled love web'
of Daphne, George
and Stanley is
available by entering <Daphne Charlton> into Yahoo Images, then
going
to Stanley's Portrait of Daphne in a
black hat (103-4 jpg), and double clicking it.
The portrait itself is
now in the
Tate Gallery (<www.tate.org.uk> search <stanley
spencer> ref. N05148) and is also reproduced on Google
Images
<Stanley Spencer> Daphne 1940.
After Daphne's death in 1991, Ian Kellam arranged for the
hat
- a bijou confection which Stanley bought for her in Bond Street for
the then considerable sum of three guineas - to
be placed in the permanent collection of the
Hampstead
Museum, which is almost opposite her former home in New End Square.
Some of Daphne's (née M D Gribble) work can be found by
entering her name in Google and going to the relevant <Chambers
Gallery>
website. Her
husband George specialised in anatomical drawing and was in demand for
illustrating medical textbooks. He also enjoyed painting landscapes and
portraits, and much of his leisure work can be
found by entering
<Chambers Gallery George Charlton> into Google, where
Michael Chambers offers reminiscence and illustrations of his
collection when it was put up for sale after his
death. George
left some fine portraits of Daphne, although it is said that after she
became involved with Stanley he only ever painted her back view,
e.g The White Hart Dining Room
with Daphne seated, 1939.