John Roddam Spencer Stanhope
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Oil portrait by Evelyn De Morgan
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| Born |
20 January 1829 Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
| Died | 2 August 1908 (aged 79) Florence, Kingdom of Italy |
| Nationality | English |
| Education | Oxford and Florence |
| Known for | painting |
| Notable work | Love and the Maiden (1877) considered his masterpiece |
| Movement | Pre-Raphaelite ("second wave"), Aestheticism, British Symbolism |
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 John Roddam Spencer Stanhope's Thoughts of the Past, Smarthistory
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John Roddam Spencer Stanhope (20 January 1829 — 2 August 1908) is an English artist associated with Edward Burne-Jones and George Frederic Watts and often regarded as a second-wave pre-Raphaelite. His work is also studied within the context of Aestheticism and British Symbolism. As a painter, Stanhope worked in oil, watercolor, fresco, and mixed media. His subject matter was mythological, allegorical, biblical, and contemporary. Stanhope was born in Yorkshire, England, and died in Florence, Italy. He was the uncle and teacher of the painter Evelyn De Morgan.
Stanhope was the son of John Spencer Stanhope of Horsforth and Cannon Hall, a classical antiquarian who in his youth explored Greece. The artist’s mother was Elizabeth Wilhemina Coke, third and youngest daughter of Thomas William Coke of Norfolk, first Earl of Leicester; she and her sisters had studied art with Thomas Gainsborough. Stanhope had one older brother, Walter, who inherited Cannon Hall, and four sisters, Anna Maria Wilhelmina, Eliza Anne, Anne Alicia, and Louisa Elizabeth. Anna married Percival Pickering and became the mother of Evelyn.
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