John Roddam Spencer Stanhope, Thoughts of the Past, exhibited 1859

Roddam Spencer Stanhope - Thoughts of the Past

1859

Tate Gallery

Stanhope is very interesting and considered one of the second-generation Pre-Raphaelites, though he was part of the Oxford mural painting party in 1857. He was a founder member of the Hogarth Club which directly followed the PRB.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogarth_Club

This picture of a prostitute looking remorsefully back on her past has been compared with Rossetti's Found and Hunt's Awakening Conscience, highighting a big social issue of the time.

http://www.artmagick.com/pictures/artist.aspx?artist=john-roddam-spencer-stanhope

Roddam Spencer Stanhope - The Water Gate

http://www.leicestergalleries.com/art-and-antiques/detail/11829

Roddam Spencer Stanhope - Autumn

c. 1879

Watercolour

http://www.leicestergalleries.com/art-and-antiques/detail/13836

Roddam Spencer Stanhope - The Shulamite

oil on panel

Roddam Spencer Stanhope - Love and the Maiden

Tempera on Canvas w/gold pnt & leaf

1877

Roddam Spencer Stanhope - Our Lady

[Our Lady of the Watergate]

oil on canvas
exhibited at the Universal Exhibition, Paris 1878 (as L'Ecluse)

it was sold to G F Bodley, the architect and friend of Stanhope.
The literary association has never been identified. According to one critic 'The golden-orange tone, painted over a gilt background, is unique to Spencer Stanhope'.

http://www.artnet.com/artist/143324/john-roddam-spencer-stanhope.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Roddam_Spencer_Stanhope

http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ArtistWorks?cgroupid=999999961&artistid=519&page=1

http://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/sechard/morgspen.htm