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January 16th, 2018 
Awake Goy John Roddam Spencer Stanhope (1829 – 1908) was an English painter from an aristocratic family (if you could not tell by his name). He studied at Oxford and Eton, as is to be expected of a privileged youngster in England, but he went against his family’s desires by studying art. As he did not inherit his family’s estates, he found himself freed up to pursue his passions. He became part of the second wave of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, working with a variety of media to create paintings with mythological, biblical, contemporary and allegorical themes. He was considered avant garde during his time and his works were featured in the Grosvenor Gallery, which was an alternative to the Royal Academy. Although seeing a good deal of success, he was still viewed as “poor Roddy” by some family members, such as his sister Anna, who was mother to artist Evelyn de Morgan. Another one of his nieces, A.M.W. Stirling (Evelyn’s sister), wrote A Painter of Dreams, which was collection of biographical essays, in which she remembered her uncle as:
the Idealist, the seer of exquisite visions.”
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