how did your family or how did you know stanley spencer?cookham, which is where stanley spencer lives, and my father was his doctor. >> appraiser: gosh. >> woman: and he got to know him very well. he was keen on art and things. so we used to go up there and have a look at his paintings when they were being done. >> appraiser: ah, what an amazing story. what sort of man was stanley spencer like? >> woman: he was a chatterbox, never stopped talking. and if he'd come to a cocktail party or something like that the only way you could get him to go home was to take him home. >> appraiser: really. (laughter) but was he good company? >> woman: oh yes. >> appraiser: fascinating. and i note -- i mean, it's nicely signed, your portrait stanley spencer, october 1959. and of course he died in 1959. >> woman: well, he was dying of cancer and my father said to my mother, "he's not eating. let's get him." so he came to our house, and to keep him occupied, he'd draw me, and we gave him some food. then soon after that he went into the hospital where he died.