in his later years spencer was seen as a "small man with twinkling eyes and shaggy grey hair, often wearing his pyjamas under his suit if it was cold." spencer became a "familiar sight, wandering the lanes of cookham pushing the old pram in which he carried his canvas and easel." a scene of spencer pushing his easel along in a pram, and surrounded by angels, was the subject of the painting "homage to spencer" by the artist derek clarke. the pram, black and battered, has survived to become an exhibit in the stanley spencer gallery in cookham, which is dedicated to spencer's life and works.