Portraits of Alice Mildred and Winifred Julia Spencer Stanhope

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),