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1927
 
    
Stanley Spencer completes his large visionary canvas The Resurrection: Cookham       
1927
 
    
Stanley Spencer begins his murals in the Memorial Chapel for Henry Sandham at Burghclere, in Hampshire       
c. 1932
 
  
The British artist Graham Sutherland, after an early career as a printmaker, takes up painting relatively late in life     
Graham Sutherland, self-portrait, 1977
National Portrait Gallery, London

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1934
 
   
British painter Francis Bacon has his first solo show in London      
Francis Bacon, by Ruskin Spear, 1984
National Portrait Gallery, London

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1937
 
     
William Coldstream and Victor Pasmore open a school of art with a distinctive style, known from its location as the Euston Road School        
1937
 
    
Stanley Spencer gives a stark depiction of himself and his wife in The Leg of Mutton Nude       
1938
 
    
Leading British artists Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson marry       
1939
 
     
Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson move their studios to St Ives        
1945
 
     
English painter Francis Bacon creates a sensation with his Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion        
1946
 
    
Sadler's Wells Ballet moves to the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden (and is known from 1956 as the Royal Ballet)