Evelyn De Morgan. Evelyn De Morgan, née Pickering, was an English painter associated early in her career with the later phase of the Pre-Raphaelite Movement.
Her paintings are figural, foregrounding the female body through the use of spiritual, mythological, and allegorical themes. They rely on a range of metaphors to express what several scholars have identified as spiritualist and feminist content.
Her later works also deal with the themes of war from a pacifist perspective, engaging with conflicts like the Second Boer War and World War I. She was born Mary Evelyn Pickering at 6 Grosvenor Street, to upper middle-class parents Percival Pickering QC, the Recorder of Pontefract, and Anna Maria Wilhelmina Spencer Stanhope, the sister of the artist John Roddam Spencer Stanhope and a descendant of Coke of Norfolk who was an Earl of Leicester. De Morgan was educated at home; according to her sister and biographer, Anna Wilhelmina Stirling, their mother insisted that from the first Evelyn profi from the same instruction as her brother.
She studied Greek, Latin, French, German, and Italian, as well as classical literature and mythology, and was also exposed at a young age to history books and scientific texts. In August 1883, Evelyn met the ceramicist William De Morgan, and on 5 March 1887, they married.
They spent their lives together in London, visiting Florence for half the year every year from 1895
Her paintings are figural, foregrounding the female body through the use of spiritual, mythological, and allegorical themes. They rely on a range of metaphors to express what several scholars have identified as spiritualist and feminist content.
Her later works also deal with the themes of war from a pacifist perspective, engaging with conflicts like the Second Boer War and World War I. She was born Mary Evelyn Pickering at 6 Grosvenor Street, to upper middle-class parents Percival Pickering QC, the Recorder of Pontefract, and Anna Maria Wilhelmina Spencer Stanhope, the sister of the artist John Roddam Spencer Stanhope and a descendant of Coke of Norfolk who was an Earl of Leicester. De Morgan was educated at home; according to her sister and biographer, Anna Wilhelmina Stirling, their mother insisted that from the first Evelyn profi from the same instruction as her brother.
She studied Greek, Latin, French, German, and Italian, as well as classical literature and mythology, and was also exposed at a young age to history books and scientific texts. In August 1883, Evelyn met the ceramicist William De Morgan, and on 5 March 1887, they married.
They spent their lives together in London, visiting Florence for half the year every year from 1895
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