Evelyn De Morgan

Evelyn de Morgan ( born August 30, 1855 Evelyn Pickering; † May 2, 1919 ) was a painter from the circle of the Pre-Raphaelites.

She came from an upper middle class household. Her father was Percival Pickering QC, her mother was Anna Maria Wilhelmina Spencer Stanhope, a sister of the artist John Roddam Spencer Stanhope and a descendant of Thomas Coke of Norfolk, Earl of Leicester which was.

Evelyn de Morgan got home schooling and took 15 first drawing lessons. Her uncle, John Roddam Spencer Stanhope, had a great influence on your work. Evelyn de Morgan often visited him in Florence, where he lived. Trips abroad to Italy allow her to study the great artists of the Renaissance; she was only too keen on the work of Sandro Botticelli.

This influenced her subject from the classical way to their own style. 1887 she married the ceramicist William De Morgan. They lived in London until he died in 1917. She died two years later, on 2 May 1919 in London and was buried in the cemetery at Brookwood ( Surrey ).

Works

  • Eos ( 1895)
  • Undiscovered Country
  • Tobias and the Angel
  • Night & Sleep ( 1878) to the image
  • Goddess of Blossoms and Flowers (1880 ) for image
  • Angel of Death (1881 ), for image
  • Hope in a Prison of Despair (1887 ) for image
  • The Storm Spirits ( 1900) Image
  • Queen Eleanor and Fair Rosamund (1905 ) for image
  • Port after Stormy Seas (1907 ) for image
  • The worship of Mammon to the image
  • Helen of Troy (1898 ) for image
  • The Love Potion (1903 ) for image
  • Medea to image
  • Earthbound for image
  • Ariadne in Naxos image
  • The Hour -Glass for Picture
  • The Prisoner (1907 ) for image
  • The Gilded Cage ( 1919) to the image
  • Death of the Dragon ( 1914)
  • The Red Cross (1916 ) for image
  • Love's Passing (1883-1884) to the image
  • Deianera to image
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