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Who painted it?
Who painted “Love and the Maiden”?
“Love and the Maiden” was painted by John Roddam Spencer Stanhope in 1877. Where to see it: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
What to look for
Pre-Raphaelite: intense colour, hard-edged detail everywhere at once, flowing hair and medieval or literary subjects; Academic art of the time is smoother and more classical.
John Roddam Spencer Stanhope (20 January 1829 – 2 August 1908) was an English artist associated with Edward Burne-Jones and George Frederic Watts and often regarded as a second-wave Pre-Raphaelite. Wikipedia
Test yourself: a round on John Roddam Spencer Stanhope
More by John Roddam Spencer Stanhope
- “Thoughts of the Past”, 1859
- “The Temptation of Eve”
- “The Wine Press”, 1864
- “Birth of Venus”
- “Morgan Le Fay”, 1880
- “Charon and Psyche”, 1883
- “Nymph”
- “John Montagu Spencer Stanhope”, 1862