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« Reply #15 on: October 14, 2009, 11:40:34 pm »

Evelyn De Morgan’s work appeals to me, as I seem to be drawn to art of a mythological nature. Apart from the subject matter, I enjoy her use of color and drapery. Her work is wholly her own, but looking at it you can see traces of inspiration from the works of Burne-Jones and Spencer-Stanhope. This page at The Victorian Web takes a look at De Morgan’s work and the influence of Burne-Jones.

Evelyn’s life seems fascinating to me. Her mother was the sister of the artist John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope, who became an artistic mentor to Evelyn. She spent a great deal of time with him in Italy, a beautiful country that no doubt appealed to her young, artistic eye. The biography that accompanies the Evelyn De Morgan Gallery at Artmagick.com is particularly good. The De Morgan Centre (http://www.demorgan.org.uk) describes Evelyn and her husband, William De Morgan as “true renaissance people” who were interested in spiritualism, the Suffragette movement, and prison reform. The couple were both pacifists, and I was happy to stumble upon this webpage that highlights her anti-war paintings.

A favorite De Morgan painting of mine is Deianira, the second wife of Hercules and the subject of the play Trachiniae by Sophocles.

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