Evelyn De Morgan

Evelyn De Morgan
Evelyn De Morgan
Evelyn De Morgan
Born
Mary Evelyn Pickering

(1855-08-30)30 August 1855
London, England
Died2 May 1919(1919-05-02) (aged 63)
London, England
Resting placeBrookwood Cemetery
NationalityEnglish
EducationSlade School of Art
Known forpainting
Notable work
StylePre-Raphaelite, Symbolist
MovementPre-Raphaelites
SpouseWilliam De Morgan

Evelyn De Morgan (30 August 1855 – 2 May 1919) was an English painter associated early in her career with the later phase of the Pre-Raphaelite Movement, and working in a range of styles including Aestheticism and Symbolism.[1] Her paintings are figural, foregrounding the female body through the use of spiritual, mythological, and allegorical themes. They rely on a range of metaphors (such as light and darkness, transformation, and bondage) to express what several scholars have identified as spiritualist and feminist content.[2][3][4][5] Her later works also dealt with the themes of war from a pacifist perspective, engaging with conflicts such as the Second Boer War and World War I.[2]

  1. ^ "Evelyn De Morgan". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/45491. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ^ a b Lawton Smith, Elise (2002). Evelyn Pickering De Morgan and the Allegorical Body. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. ISBN 978-0-8386-3883-5.
  3. ^ Gordon, Catherine (1996). Evelyn de Morgan: Oil Paintings. De Morgan Foundation. p. 14. ISBN 978-0-9528141-0-8.
  4. ^ Rose, Lucy Ella (2017). Suffragist Artists in Partnership: Gender, Word and Image. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-1-4744214-5-4.
  5. ^ Merkling, Emma (10 July 2023). "Physics, Psychical Research, and the Self: Evelyn De Morgan's Spiritualist Portraits". Art History. doi:10.1111/1467-8365.12726. ISSN 0141-6790.