Unity Spencer was born on 24 May 1930 at her parents’ and grandparents’ home at 47
Downshire Hill in
Hampstead, London, the second daughter of
Stanley Spencer and his wife
Hilda Carline, both artists. She was educated at the
Badminton School,
Wimbledon School of Art and the
Slade School of Fine Art. She had one-person shows at
Lauderdale House in Highgate in 1993, the Boundary Gallery in
St John's Wood in 2001, and the
Fine Art Society in
Bond Street in 2015. A BBC documentary,
Stanley and His Daughters, shown after Unity's death, included interviews with both sisters in which they talked about their childhood and the decision to move in together. Spencer died of kidney failure on 18 October 2017. She was buried in
Cookham, Berkshire, close to her mother. ==References==