John Roddam Spencer Stanhope
John Roddam Spencer Stanhope | |
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Born | |
Died | 2 August 1908 | (aged 79)
Nationality | English |
Education | Oxford and 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
Life and career
Stanhope was the son of John Spencer Stanhope of Horsforth and Cannon Hall, 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.[4] Stanhope had one older brother, Walter, who inherited Cannon Hall, and four sisters, Anna Maria Wilhelmina, Eliza Anne, Anne Alicia, and Louisa Elizabeth.[5] Anna married Percival Pickering and became the mother of Evelyn.[6]
Not inheriting the family estates left Stanhope free to make a commitment to art. While a student at Oxford, he sought out Watts as a teacher and was Watts’ assistant for some of his architectural paintings.
On 10 January 1859 he married Elizabeth King, the daughter of John James King, granddaughter of the third
The move was intended to offer an improved environment for Stanhope’s chronic
In 1867, at the age of seven, Mary died of scarlet fever and was buried in at the English Cemetery in Florence. Her father designed her headstone.[17]
Though his family accepted his occupation as a painter
Stanhope moved permanently to Florence in 1880.[21] There he painted the reredos of the English Church, and other work in the Chapel of Marlborough College.[22] In 1873, he bought the Villa Nuti in Florence, where he was visited frequently by De Morgan and where he lived until his death.[23]
De Morgan’s sister,
Works
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John Roddam Spencer Stanhope's Thoughts of the Past, Smarthistory[27] |
Paintings and other works by John Roddam Spencer Stanhope include:
- Penelope (1849)
- Sir Gawaine and the Damsels at the Fountain (1857), Oxford murals
- Thoughts of the Past (1859)
- Robins of Modern Times (c. 1860; Collection of Ann and Gordon Getty)[28]
- Juliet and Her Nurse (exhibited at the Royal Academy 1863)[29]
- The Wine Press (1864)
- Our Lady of the Water Gate (1870)
- Procris and Cephalus (exhibited at the Royal Academy and Liverpool 1872)[30]
- Love and the Maiden (exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery 1877, now in the collections of the California Palace of the Legion of Honor Art Museum, San Francisco)
- Night (1878)
- The Waters of Lethe by the Plains of Elysium (1879–80)
- Morgan Le Fay (c. 1880)
- The Shulamite (c. 1882)
- Charon and Psyche (c. 1883)
- Winnowing (exhibited Royal Inst. of Painters in Water Colours 1884)[31]
- Why Seek Ye the Living Among the Dead? (c. 1886; also known as Resurrection)
- Eve Tempted (1887)
- The Pine Woods of Viareggio (exhibited 1888)
- In Memoriam (exhibited New Gallery 1889) “in which a barefoot country girl suggestively smiles at the dead or wounded bird she caresses in her hand”[32][33]
- Flora (1889)
- Holy Trinity Main Altar Polyptych (1892–1894)
- Holy Trinity Memorial Chapel Polyptych (1892–1894)
- The Escape (c. 1900)
- The Vision Of Ezekiel: The Valley Of Dry Bones (exhibited Royal Academy 1902)[34]
Other works (dates unavailable):
- Andromeda
- Autumn
- Charcoal Thieves
- Cupid and Psyche
- Love Betrayed (The Russell Cotes Gallery, Bournemouth)
- The Millpond (watercolor with bodycolor)[35]
- Patience On A Monument Smiling At Grief
- The Washing Place
- The White Rabbit
References
- ^ 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.
- OCLC 1019840657.)
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link - 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. Stirling was the daughter of Spencer-Stanhope’s sister Anna; although she is a unique and valuable source of information, her reliability is sometimes questioned. See Elise Lawton Smith, “The Art of Evelyn De Morgan,” Woman’s Art Journal 18 (1997–98) 3–10 and Evelyn Pickering De Morgan and the Allegorical Body (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2002).
- ^ A.M.W. Stirling, A Painter of Dreams, p. 287; Bernard Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland (London 1863) part 2, 4th edition, p. 1417.
- ^ “About Evelyn De Morgan née Pickering,” The De Morgan Centre.
- ^ Caroline Dakers, The Holland Park Circle (Yale University Press, 1999), p. 20.
- ^ Jane A. Munro, “‘This Hateful Letter-Writing’: Selected Correspondence of Sir Edward Burne-Jones in the Huntington Library” Huntington Library Quarterly 55 (1992), p. 98, note 28. Vera Schuster, “The Pre-Raphaelites in Oxford,” Oxford Art Journal 1 (1978), p. 9, considered the work “unfinished.”
- ^ Christie's, Fine Victorian Pictures, Drawings and Watercolours, catalogue of sale held on June 6, 1997, cited by Simon Poë, “Mythology and Symbolism in Two Works of Roddam Spencer Stanhope’s Maturity,” Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies 12 (2003) 35–61; Christie's auction catalogue Lot 43, Sale 5801 online and archived.
- ^ Coke of Norfolk and His Friends, vol. 2 (New York 1908), p. 531.
- ^ Sheila Kirk, “Philip Webb,” citing Grove Art Online; Caroline Dakers, Clouds” The Biography of a Country House (Yale University Press, 1993), p. 30; Henry-Russell Hitchcock, “High Victorian Gothic,” Victorian Studies 1 (1957), p. 54.
- ^ Caroline Dakers, The Holland Park Circle (Yale University Press), pp. 48–49.
- ^ William Morris Gallery, “Morris & Co Hand Painted Tiles: Alcestis,” online exhibition. Archived 3 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Henry-Russell Hitchcock, Architecture: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Yale University Press, 1987), p. 359.
- ^ Caroline Dakers, The Holland Park Circle: Artists and Victorian Society (Yale University Press, 1999), p. 49.
- ^ Caroline Dakers, The Holland Park Circle: Artists and Victorian Society (Yale University Press, 1999), pp. 49 and 53.
- ^ Nic Peeters and Judy Oberhausen, “L’Arte della memoria: John Roddam Spencer Stanhope and the Tomb of His Daughter Mary,” from Marble Silence, Words on Stone: Florence’s English Cemetery, The City and the Book III International Conference 3–5 June 2004, online.
- ^ Caroline Dakers, Clouds (Yale University Press, 1993), p. 213.
- ^ Elise Lawton Smith, Evelyn Pickering de Morgan and the Allegorical Body (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2002), p. 18.
- ^ Susan P. Casteras, Colleen Denney et al., The Grosvenor Gallery: A Palace of Art in Victorian England (Yale University Press, 1996); “About Evelyn De Morgan née Pickering,” The De Morgan Centre.
- ^ Jane A. Munro, “‘This Hateful Letter-Writing’: Selected Correspondence of Sir Edward Burne-Jones in the Huntington Library” Huntington Library Quarterly 55 (1992), p. 98, note 28.
- ^ Obituary, The Annual Register: A Review of Public Events at Home and Abroad 1908 (London 1909), p. 133.
- ^ Elise Lawton Smith, Evelyn Pickering de Morgan and the Allegorical Body (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2002), p. 18; Delia Gaze, Maja Mihajilovic, Leanda Shrimpton, Dictionary of Women Artists (Taylor & Francis, 1997), p. 450.
- ^ A.M.W. Stirling, A Painter of Dreams (John Lane, 1916), pp. viii and x.
- ^ Gertrude is sometimes identified erroneously as the sister of John Roddam; she is in fact another niece, the eldest child of his brother, Sir Walter. See “New acquisitions at Cannon Hall Museum: Bronzes by Gertrude Spencer-Stanhope Barnsley,” Metropolitan Borough Council;[permanent dead link] Charles Tiplady Pratt, A History of Cawthorne (Barnsley 1882), p.36; and article on Gertrude Spencer-Stanhope.
- ^ ArtMagick Exhibition Listings Archived 2011-06-14 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved August 21, 2008.
- ^ "John Roddam Spencer Stanhope's Thoughts of the Past". Smarthistory at Khan Academy. Retrieved 6 March 2013.
- OCLC 1019840657.)
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link - ^ Julian Treuherz, review of the exhibition Heaven on Earth: The Religion of Beauty in Late Victorian Art at the Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham, Burlington Magazine 137 (1995), p. 46, where the painting is reproduced in black-and-white.
- ^ Sotheby’s Belgravia April and May 1978 Sales, Decorative Arts 1870–1940, Burlington Magazine 120 (1978), p. xxviii.
- ^ Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours (Great Britain) (1884). A Catalogue of the 66th Exhibition. "Graphic" Office. p. 27.
- ^ Elaine Shefer, “The ‘Bird in the Cage’ in the History of Sexuality: Sir John Everett Millais and William Holman Hunt,” Journal of the History of Sexuality 1 (1991), p. 475, note 48. Shefer compares the work to Millais’s Dropped from the Nest, “but with more erotic overtones.”
- ^ New Gallery (London) (1888). The New Gallery 1889, an Illustrated Catalogue of the Summer Exhibition. p. 24.
- ^ "The exhibition of the Royal Academy, 1902. The 134th. | Exhibition Catalogues | RA Collection | Royal Academy of Arts". www.royalacademy.org.uk. p. 35. Retrieved 27 January 2022.
- ^ “A Checklist of Pre-Raphaelite Works of Art in the Huntington Library and Art Collections,” Huntington Library Quarterly 55 (1992), p. 251.
External links
Media related to John Roddam Spencer Stanhope at Wikimedia Commons
- John Roddam Spencer Stanhope, artist (Victorian Art in Britain)
- History of Cawthorne, Chapter IV, Cannon Hall
- John Roddam Spencer Stanhope by Lewis Carroll (National Portrait Gallery)
- "John Roddam Spencer Stanhope and the Tomb of His Daughter Mary: An Ongoing Research Project" by Nic Peeters and Judy Oberhausen
- 9 artworks by or after John Roddam Spencer Stanhope at the Art UK site