Evelyn De Morgan Our Lady of Peace Painting ID:: 2843 Evelyn De Morgan1.jpg
Our Lady of Peace De Morgan Foundation, London
Evelyn De Morgan Deianira (mk46) Painting ID:: 26038 new2/Evelyn De Morgan-932226.jpg
Deianira (mk46) 1855-1919
C.1878
Watercolour and bodycolour
45.7x30.5cm
Evelyn De Morgan At the waters Babylons Painting ID:: 39417 new12/Evelyn De Morgan-439665.jpg
At the waters Babylons mk148
The exile Jews lament the loss of its homeland and the destruction Jerusalems
Evelyn De Morgan Our Senora of the Peace Painting ID:: 42085 new16/Evelyn De Morgan-229834.jpg
Our Senora of the Peace mk166
1907 Fundacion Of Morgan London
Evelyn De Morgan Our Lady of Peace Painting ID:: 51708 new19/Evelyn De Morgan-943445.jpg
Our Lady of Peace nn09
Oil on canvas
Evelyn De Morgan Port After Stormy Sea Painting ID:: 51775 new19/Evelyn De Morgan-836334.jpg
Port After Stormy Sea nn09
Oil on canvas
Evelyn De Morgan phosphorus and hesperus Painting ID:: 56298 new20/Evelyn De Morgan-382288.jpg
phosphorus and hesperus mk247
1882,oil on canvas,23.625x17.375 in,60x44 cm,de morgan centre,london,uk
Evelyn De Morgan Aurora Triumphans a.k.a. Dawn Painting ID:: 70272 new23/Evelyn De Morgan-485593.jpg
Aurora Triumphans a.k.a. Dawn Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 46 x 68 in.
Evelyn De Morgan Hope in a Prison of Despair, Painting ID:: 77177 new24/Evelyn De Morgan-584889.jpg
Hope in a Prison of Despair, Hope in a Prison of Despair, allegorical, pre-raphaelite painting by Evelyn De Morgan (30 August 1855-2 May 1919), British painter, showing Hope as a woman or very young man holding a lamp, entering the dungeon where Despair is shown as another human figure bowed down with grief. Hope's saint-like halo suggests the comfort brought by religious faith.
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Evelyn De Morgan The Gilded Cage Painting ID:: 86249 new25/Evelyn De Morgan-988627.jpg
The Gilded Cage Date
Medium Oil on canvas
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Evelyn De Morgan Night and Sleep Painting ID:: 95074 new26/Evelyn De Morgan-699444.jpg
Night and Sleep 1878
Type Oil on canvas
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Evelyn De Morgan Helen of Troy Painting ID:: 95179 new26/Evelyn De Morgan-699856.jpg
Helen of Troy 1898
Type Oil on canvas
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Evelyn De Morgan The Love Potion Painting ID:: 95191 new26/Evelyn De Morgan-569437.jpg
The Love Potion 1903
Type Oil on canvas
Dimensions 104.1 cm x 52.1 cm
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1855-1919
British
Evelyn De Morgan Galleries
She was born Evelyn Pickering. Her parents were of upper middle class. Her father was Percival Pickering QC, the Recorder of Pontefract. Her mother was Anna Maria Wilhelmina Spencer Stanhope, the sister of the artist John Roddam Spencer Stanhope and a descendant of Coke of Norfolk who was an Earl of Leicester.
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, John 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 and was buried in Brookwood Cemetery, near Woking, Surrey.