Love and the Maiden

1877 painting by John Roddam Spencer Stanhop

Love and the Maiden

Artist| John Roddam Spencer Stanhope
Year| 1877
Type| Oil, gold paint and gold leaf on canvas
Dimensions| 86.4 cm × 50.8 cm (34.0 in × 20.0 in)
Location| Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

Love and the Maiden is an oil painting (previously mistaken for tempera)[1] on canvas by English Pre-Raphaelite artist John Roddam Spencer Stanhope (executed in 1877) that is currently housed at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.[2]

## History

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Known as one of the "second-generation" of Pre-Raphaelites, Stanhope was among Dante Gabriel Rossetti's mural-painting party at the Oxford Union in 1857, together with Arthur Hughes, John Hungerford Pollen, Valentine Prinsep, Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris. He was a founder member of the Hogarth Club, a direct descendant of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.[3]

This painting is considered one of Stanhope's best, and represents two radically different artistic phases of his life. Although he began as fervently Pre-Raphaelite in outlook, Stanhope was deeply attracted by the Aesthetic movement during the 1860s. Love and the Maiden is a succinct mingling of these two equally formative phases in his career. Its presence in the 1877 exhibition at the Grosvenor Gallery — Aestheticism's most famous exposé — demonstrates his adherence to the latter movement, whereas the painting's similarity to the work of Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti \- the group of dancing women in the background are similar to those portrayed by Rossetti in The Bower Meadow (1871–72) - betray Stanhope's Pre-Raphaelite background.

During his time in Oxford in 1857, Stanhope wrote that he spent most days painting with Burne-Jones;[4] possibly as a result of this, a great deal of Burne-Jones' influence can be seen in his work - although it could be argued that Burne-Jones also drew ideas from Stanhope's work. The androgynous physiques, Grecian-style draperies and facial expressions depicted in Love and the Maiden are classic Burne-Jones hallmarks, even though the facial similarities probably also arose from use of the same models.[5]

## See also

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* English art
* List of Pre-Raphaelite paintings

## References

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1. ^ Truth & beauty : the Pre-Raphaelites and the old masters. Melissa E. Buron, Susanna Avery-Quash, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. San Francisco. 2018. p. 258\. ISBN 978-3-7913-5728-7. OCLC 1019840657.`{{cite book}}`: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
2. ^ See Art sales: Stanhope's maiden tells a tale, article on The Telegraph, 27 January 2003.
3. ^ A.M.W. Stirling, "The Life of Roddam Spencer Stanhope, Pre-Raphaelite, a Painter of Dreams," in A Painter of Dreams and Other Biographical Studies (London: Lane, 1916).
4. ^ Jane A. Munro, "'This Hateful Letter-Writing': Selected Correspondence of Sir Edward Burne-Jones in the Huntington Library", Huntington Library Quarterly 55 (1992). Cf. also V. Schuster, "The Pre-Raphaelites in Oxford," Oxford Art Journal 1 (1978).
5. ^ T. Hilto, The Pre-Raphelites, Thames and Hudson (1970).

## Further reading

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* Hilto, Timoth, The Pre-Raphelites, Thames and Hudson (1970).
* Robinson, Michael, The Pre-Raphaelites, Flame Tree Publishing (2007).
* Todd, Pamela, Pre-Raphaelites at Home, Watson-Giptill Publications, (2001).

## External links

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* Art sales: Stanhope's maiden tells a tale article on The Telegraph, 27 January 2003
* John Roddam Spencer Stanhope, artist (Victorian Art in Britain)
* Love and the Maiden on victorianweb.org
* John Roddam Spencer Stanhope by Lewis Carroll (National Portrait Gallery)

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Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (paintings)

* William Holman Hunt
* John Everett Millais
* Dante Gabriel Rossetti
* James Collinson
* William Michael Rossetti
* Frederic George Stephens
* Thomas Woolner

Associated
artists and
figures

* Lawrence Alma-Tadema
* George Price Boyce
* John Brett
* Ford Madox Brown
* Lucy Madox Brown
* Richard Burchett
* Edward Burne-Jones
* Georgiana Burne-Jones
* James Campbell
* John Collier
* Charles Allston Collins
* Frank Cadogan Cowper
* Evelyn De Morgan
* Walter Deverell
* Henry Treffry Dunn
* William Dyce
* Henry Holiday
* Arthur Hughes
* Edward Robert Hughes
* Frederic Leighton
* Robert Braithwaite Martineau
* Louisa Beresford, Marchioness of Waterford
* William Morris
* Alexander Munro
* Joseph Noel Paton
* Valentine Cameron Prinsep
* Christina Rossetti
* John Ruskin
* Emma Sandys
* Frederick Sandys
* Thomas Seddon
* Elizabeth Siddal
* James Smetham
* Rebecca Solomon
* Simeon Solomon
* John Roddam Spencer Stanhope
* Marie Spartali Stillman
* John Melhuish Strudwick
* Algernon Charles Swinburne
* Henry Wallis
* John William Waterhouse
* William James Webbe
* William Lindsay Windus

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works
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post-period)

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Models|

* Elizabeth Siddal
* Fanny Cornforth
* Effie Gray
* Sophie Gray
* Annie Miller
* Jane Morris
* Marie Spartali Stillman
* Alexa Wilding
* Maria Zambaco
* Dorothy Dene
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* The Germ
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* Morris & Co.
* Rossetti and His Circle (1922 book)
* Dante's Inferno (1967 film)
* The Love School (1975 series)
* Desperate Romantics (2009 series)
* Effie Gray (2014 film)

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