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.Simon Poë, “Mythology and Symbolism in Two Works of Roddam Spencer Stanhope’s Maturity,”
Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies 12 (2003) 35–61. 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.
Life and career
Stanhope was the son of John
Spencer Stanhope of
Horsforth and
Cannon Hall,
MP, 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.
A.M.W. Stirling, "The Life of Roddam Spencer Stanhope, Pre-Raphaelite, a Painter of Dreams,” in
A Painter of Dreams and Other Biographical Studies (London: Lane, 1916). p. 288....
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