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John Roddam Spencer Stanhope

John Roddam Spencer Stanhope Thoughts of the Past oil painting on canvas
Thoughts of the Past
Painting ID::  83808
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John Roddam Spencer Stanhope Thoughts of the Past oil painting on canvas



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  John Roddam Spencer Stanhope
  English Pre-Raphaelite Painter, 1829-1908,English painter. The second son of Yorkshire landed gentry, he was educated at Rugby and Christ Church, Oxford. In 1850 he studied in London with G. F. Watts, through whom he entered the artistic circle at Little Holland House, where he met D. G. Rossetti and Edward Burne-Jones. In 1857 Rossetti invited him to paint at the Oxford Union (Sir Gawaine and the Damsels at the Fountain), and in 1858 Stanhope occupied a studio next to Rossetti's at Chatham Place, Blackfriars (London), where he painted Thoughts of the Past (London, Tate); a modern-life subject indebted to Rossetti, it shows a prostitute recalling her former life. Stanhope's close friendship with Burne-Jones proved a more decisive influence on his work that, in the 1860s, consisted of dreamlike poetic and mythological subjects often set in quaint, enclosed spaces, as in I Have Trod the Winepress Alone
  Thoughts of the Past
  exhibited in 1859 Medium Oil on canvas cyf

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