Evelyn de Morgan (1855-1919)

Portraits of Alice Mildred and Winifred Julia Spencer Stanhope

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Evelyn de Morgan (1855-1919)
Portraits of Alice Mildred and Winifred Julia Spencer Stanhope
signed with monogram and dated '1884' (centre right) and further signed and inscribed 'Portraits of/Mildred and Freda Spencer Stanhope/Evelyn de Morgan/1 The Vale Kings.../Chelsea SW' (on a partial label attached to the reverse)
oil on canvas
17 ½ x 31 5/8 in. (44.5 x 80.4 cm.)
in the original frame

Provenance

with Stanley Woolston, Cambridge, where purchased by the present owner, circa 1960.

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Lot Essay

Alice (1870-1892) and Winifred (1872-1901) were the youngest of ten children of Sir Walter Spencer-Stanhope (1827-1911) and his wife Elizabeth Julia Buxton (d. 1880) of Cannon Hall in Yorkshire. Their sister Gertrude (1857-1944) became a painter and sculptor in the Pre-Raphaelite tradition, probably following Sir Walter's brother John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope (1829-1908) who was a highly celebrated second generation Pre-Raphaelite artist. Sir Walter's sister Anna was the mother of Evelyn (1855-1919), another Pre-Raphaelite artist and first cousin to our sitters, who is better known by her married name Evelyn de Morgan, following her marriage to the potter William de Morgan (1839-1917),

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