Stanhope

John Roddam Spencer Stanhope

Love and the Maiden (detail).

Here’s a detail of a fabulous example of late Victorian painting. She’s fantastic, isn’t she? I found her quite by accident at the Legion of Honor Gallery in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, in the company of a beautiful Bougereau and a lovely Alma-Tadema. There’s an image of the whole painting here of better quality than my cellphone snapshot. I want to emulate this kind of work in my Empress painting, which will start taking shape this week. Now that I’ve returned from San Francisco I can focus on working in the studio again, although I need to take care of a bit of administrative work too, so watch this page as the Empress and the Virtues start to come to fruition.

About pearce

Michael Pearce is an artist, writer, and professor of art. He is the author of "Art in the Age of Emergence."
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