Evelyn de Morgan (1855-1919) was an English Pre-Raphaelite painter. She was born Evelyn Pickering on 30 August 1855. Her parents were of upper middle class. Her father was Percival Pickering QC, the Recorder of Pontefract. Her mother was Anna Maria Wilhelmina Spencer-Stanhop, the sister of the artist John Rodham Spencer-Stanhope and a descendant of Coke of Norfolk who was an Earl of Leicester. Evelyn and William de Morgan This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was a group of English painters, poets and critics, founded in 1848 by John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Holman Hunt. ... A painter is a person who paints woodwork, walls, etc. ... August 30 is the 242nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (243rd in leap years), with 123 days remaining. ... 1855 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Pontefract Castle in its heyday Pontefract (its name comes from the Latin for Broken Bridge) is a town in the county of West Yorkshire, England, near the A1, or Great North Road, the M62 motorway and Castleford. ...

Evelyn was homeschooled and started drawing lessons when she was 15. On the morning of her seventeenth birthday, Evelyn recorded in her diary, "Art is eternal, but life is short..." "I will make up for it now, I have not a moment to lose." She went on to persuade her parents to let her go to art school. At first they discouraged it, but in 1873 she was enrolled at the Slade School of Art. Her uncle, Roddam Spencer Stanhope, was a great influence to her works. Evelyn often visited him in Florence where he lived. This also enabled her to study the great artists of the Renaissance; she was particularly fond of the works of Botticelli. This influenced her to move away from the classical subjects favoured by the Slade school and to make her own style. In 1887, she married the ceramicist William de Morgan. They lived together in London until he died in 1917. She died two years later on 2 May 1919 in London. Homeschooling (also called home education) is the education of children at home and in the community, in contrast to education in an institution such as a public or parochial school. ... 1873 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Part of the University College London, the Slade School of Art was founded in 1868 as the result of an endowment by Felix Slade. ... Location within Italy Florence (Italian, Firenze) is a city in the center of Tuscany, in central Italy at 43°46′ N 11°15′ E. The city on the Arno River has a population of around 400,000, plus a suburban population in excess of 200,000. ... Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli (Florence March 1, 1445 - May 17, 1510) was an Italian painter of the Florentine school during the Early Renaissance (Quattrocento). ... 1887 is a common year starting on Saturday (click on link for calendar). ... William de Morgan (1839 - 1917) was Britains most talented pottery and tile designer. ...

Works

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

Evelyn de Morgan This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... The Prisoner was a controversial 1967 UK television series, starring Patrick McGoohan, created by McGoohan and George Markstein. ... The Gilded Cage is de Morgans final work before her death in 1919. ... The terms Red Cross and Red Crescent are often used as short names for the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, or its two leading international organs, the ICRC and the IFRCS. This page is about the symbol itself, see respective articles for information about the organizations and movements. ...

External links

• De Morgan Foundation