Head of a young girl

Details

EVELYN DE MORGAN (LONDON 1855-1919)
Head of a young girl
colored chalks on light brown board
12 1⁄8 x 9 1⁄8 in. (31 x 23 cm)

Provenance

C.F. Armstrong, O.B.E.; Sotheby’s, London, 20 June 1972, lot 76 (part), where purchased by,
H. L. Spilstead.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, London, 17 December 2009, lot 3.

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Lot Essay

Evelyn de Morgan was strongly influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites and was a frequent visitor to the studio of George Frederick Watts (1817-1904) and studied under Watts's student, her uncle John Roddam Spencer Stanhope (1829-1908). She married in 1887 the ceramicist William De Morgan. The present chalk drawing does not appear to be a direct study for a painting, however it does resemble a figure in An Angel Piping to the Souls in Hell and The Red Cross (De Morgan Foundation) and is possibly an unused study for a painting.

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