Educa 4000pc Jigsaw Love and the Maiden by JR Spencer-Stanhope IMG_1804
This 4000pc cardboard jigsaw puzzle was made by Educa of Spain. No 11763 it measures 136x96cm. BillsvilleMike also owns this puzzle. As an admin for the Edward Burne-Jones group and self-confessed Pre-Raphaelite enthusiast I couldn't pass this one by!
The image is a painting by John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope, called 'Love and the Maiden' (exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery 1877, now in the collections of the California Palace of the Legion of Honor Art Museum, San Francisco) and considered his masterpiece. The box gives a brief paragraph about the artist and the painting - always a welcome addition.
Information about JR Spencer Stanhope from Wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Roddam_Spencer_Stanhope
John Roddam Spencer Stanhope (20 January 1829 — 2 August 1908) is an English artist associated with Edward Burne-Jones and George Frederic Watts and often regarded as a second-wave pre-Raphaelite. He was one of the young painters recruited by Rossetti to decorate the Oxford Union (Sir Gawain and the Three Damsels at the Fountain). His work is also studied within the context of Aestheticism and British Symbolism. As a painter, Stanhope worked in oil, watercolor, fresco, and mixed media. His subject matter was mythological, allegorical, biblical, and contemporary. Stanhope was born in Yorkshire, England, and died in Florence, Italy. He was the uncle and teacher of the painter Evelyn de Morgan (nee Pickering).
Stanhope’s house Sandroyd (now called Benfleet Hall), near Cobham in Surrey, was commissioned from the architect Philip Webb - Webb’s second house, following Red House, built for William Morris. Sandroyd was designed to accommodate Stanhope’s work as a painter, with two second-floor studios connected by double doors, a waiting room, and a dressing room for models. The fireplace featured figurative tiles designed by Burne-Jones based on Chaucer’s dream-vision poem The Legend of Good Women. Burne-Jones was a frequent visitor to Sandroyd in the 1860s, and the landscape furnished the background for his painting The Merciful Knight (1864).
Stanhope hads chronic asthma and he began wintering in Florence. In the summers, he at first stayed at Burne-Jones’s house in London and later at the Elms, the western half of Little Campden House on Campden Hill, the eastern half of which was occupied by Augustus Egg.
Though his family accepted his occupation as a painter[ and took a great interest in art, Evelyn’s parents disparaged the achievements of “poor Roddy” and regarded the painters with whom he associated as “unconventional.” Considered among the avant-garde of the 1870s, Stanhope became a regular exhibitor at the Grosvenor Gallery, the alternative to the Royal Academy.
In 1873, he bought the Villa Nuti in Florence, where he was visited frequently by de Morgan and where he lived until his death. Stanhope moved permanently to Florence in 1880, where he painted the reredos of the English Church.Other work includes 12 panels in the Chapel of Marlborough College.
Educa 4000pc Jigsaw Love and the Maiden by JR Spencer-Stanhope IMG_1804
This 4000pc cardboard jigsaw puzzle was made by Educa of Spain. No 11763 it measures 136x96cm. BillsvilleMike also owns this puzzle. As an admin for the Edward Burne-Jones group and self-confessed Pre-Raphaelite enthusiast I couldn't pass this one by!
The image is a painting by John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope, called 'Love and the Maiden' (exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery 1877, now in the collections of the California Palace of the Legion of Honor Art Museum, San Francisco) and considered his masterpiece. The box gives a brief paragraph about the artist and the painting - always a welcome addition.
Information about JR Spencer Stanhope from Wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Roddam_Spencer_Stanhope
John Roddam Spencer Stanhope (20 January 1829 — 2 August 1908) is an English artist associated with Edward Burne-Jones and George Frederic Watts and often regarded as a second-wave pre-Raphaelite. He was one of the young painters recruited by Rossetti to decorate the Oxford Union (Sir Gawain and the Three Damsels at the Fountain). His work is also studied within the context of Aestheticism and British Symbolism. As a painter, Stanhope worked in oil, watercolor, fresco, and mixed media. His subject matter was mythological, allegorical, biblical, and contemporary. Stanhope was born in Yorkshire, England, and died in Florence, Italy. He was the uncle and teacher of the painter Evelyn de Morgan (nee Pickering).
Stanhope’s house Sandroyd (now called Benfleet Hall), near Cobham in Surrey, was commissioned from the architect Philip Webb - Webb’s second house, following Red House, built for William Morris. Sandroyd was designed to accommodate Stanhope’s work as a painter, with two second-floor studios connected by double doors, a waiting room, and a dressing room for models. The fireplace featured figurative tiles designed by Burne-Jones based on Chaucer’s dream-vision poem The Legend of Good Women. Burne-Jones was a frequent visitor to Sandroyd in the 1860s, and the landscape furnished the background for his painting The Merciful Knight (1864).
Stanhope hads chronic asthma and he began wintering in Florence. In the summers, he at first stayed at Burne-Jones’s house in London and later at the Elms, the western half of Little Campden House on Campden Hill, the eastern half of which was occupied by Augustus Egg.
Though his family accepted his occupation as a painter[ and took a great interest in art, Evelyn’s parents disparaged the achievements of “poor Roddy” and regarded the painters with whom he associated as “unconventional.” Considered among the avant-garde of the 1870s, Stanhope became a regular exhibitor at the Grosvenor Gallery, the alternative to the Royal Academy.
In 1873, he bought the Villa Nuti in Florence, where he was visited frequently by de Morgan and where he lived until his death. Stanhope moved permanently to Florence in 1880, where he painted the reredos of the English Church.Other work includes 12 panels in the Chapel of Marlborough College.