Evelyn de Morgan Pre Raphaelite Sisterhood

Music: Stairway to Heaven (Led Zeppelin) piano Harry Völker Para mi querida amiga Nini, con mucho cariño, Feliz Cumpleaños Evelyn Pickering De Morgan (30 August 1855 2 May 1919) was an English PreRaphaelite painter. She was born Evelyn Pickering. Her parents were of upper middle class. Her father was Percival Pickering QC, the Recorder of Pontefract. Her mother was 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. Evelyn was educated at home and started drawing lessons when she was 15. On the morning of her seventeenth birthday, Evelyn recorded in her diary, Art is eternal, but life is I will make up for it now, I have not a moment to She went on to persuade her parents to let her go to art school. At first they disco