Spencer Gore (1878-1914) was a British painter of landscapes, music-hall scenes and interiors, usually with single figures. He was the first president of the Camden Town Group, and was influenced by the Post-Impressionists.

The theme of a nude on a bed was much-explored by Walter Sickert, a close friend, but Gore's palette is lighter and brighter and this room has none of the dinginess of Sickert's bedsits and lodging houses.

The stamped signature, in the bottom right, was made when Harold Gilman helped Gore's widow sort through her husband's studio after his sudden death from pneumonia.