Spencer Stanhope: Cupid and Psyche

John Roddam Spencer Stanhope (1829-1908) was born in Yorkshire to landed gentry, and was educated at Rugby School and Christ Church college, Oxford. In 1850 he studied in London with G. F. Watts, through whom he entered the artistic circle at Little Holland House, where he met Rossetti and Edward Burne-Jones. Stanhope's close friendship with Burne-Jones proved a more decisive influence on his work that, in the 1860s, consisted of dreamlike poetic and mythological subjects often set in quaint, enclosed spaces. He worked in oil, watercolour, fresco, and mixed media, and was often regarded as a second-wave Pre-Raphaelite.

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