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John Roddam Spencer Stanhope BIOGRAPHY
1829 Yorkshire, England - 1908. Known for: Stylized religious figure painting.
An English painter, John Stanhope was 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... Read full biography
An English painter, John Stanhope was 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 Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Edward... Read full biography
An English painter, John Stanhope was 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 Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Edward Burne-Jones. 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,... Read full biography
An English painter, John Stanhope was 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 Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Edward Burne-Jones. 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 (c. 1864; London, Tate). Stanhope married in 1859 and moved to Sandroyd, a house near Cobham, Surrey, designed for him by Philip Webb in 1860, but because of severe asthma he wintered abroad from... Read full biography
An English painter, John Stanhope was 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 Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Edward Burne-Jones. 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 (c. 1864; London, Tate). Stanhope married in 1859 and moved to Sandroyd, a house near Cobham, Surrey, designed for him by Philip Webb in 1860, but because of severe asthma he wintered abroad from 1865, and in 1880 moved permanently to the Villa Nuti, Bellosguardo, near Florence. Deeply influenced by Italian art, he had his fram... Read full biography
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An English painter, John Stanhope was 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 Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Edward Burne-Jones. 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 (c. 1864; London, Tate).
Stanhope married in 1859 and moved to Sandroyd, a house near Cobham, Surrey, designed for him by Philip Webb in 1860, but because of severe asthma he wintered a...But wait, there's more...
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