John Roddam Spencer Stanhope | |
|---|---|
 Oil portrait by Evelyn De Morgan | |
| Born | 20 January 1829 Cawthorne, England |
| Died | 2 August 1908 (aged 79) |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford, University of Florence |
| Known for | Painting |
| Notable work | Love and the Maiden (1877) considered his masterpiece |
| Movement | Pre-Raphaelite ("second wave"), Aestheticism, British Symbolism |
John Roddam Spencer Stanhope[1] (20 January 1829 – 2 August 1908) was 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.[2] As a painter, Stanhope worked in oil, watercolor, fresco, tempera, and mixed media. (Some of his oil paintings are mistaken for tempera.)[3] His subject matter was mythological, allegorical, biblical, and contemporary. Stanhope was born in Cawthorne, near Barnsley, Yorkshire, England, and died in Florence, Italy. He was the uncle and teacher of the painter Evelyn De Morgan and encouraged then unknown local artist Abel Hold to exhibit at the Royal Academy, which he did 16 times.
- ^ The hyphenated form "Spencer-Stanhope" is used more often by British writers; American art historians are likely to omit the hyphen and to alphabetize the artist by "Stanhope."
- ^ Simon Poë, “Mythology and Symbolism in Two Works of Roddam Spencer Stanhope’s Maturity,” Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies 12 (2003) 35–61.
- ^ Truth & beauty : the Pre-Raphaelites and the old masters. Melissa E. Buron, Susanna Avery-Quash, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. San Francisco. 2018. pp. 256–58. ISBN 978-3-7913-5728-7. OCLC 1019840657.
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