Some of her pictures are full of light and flowers and remind one of Botticelli; not by coincidence, since she and her husband spent every winter in Florence and she was a great admirer of the Renaissance Italians. Above, Flora, 1894.
Queen Eleanor and Fair Rosamund, 1905.
I find myself more drawn to her darker paintings, like Night and Sleep, 1878.
The Angel of Death, 1890.
Demeter Mourning for Persephone, 1906.
Hope in a Prison of Despair, 1884. More paintings here.
But what inspired me to write this post was these paintings, De Morgan's response to World War I. In S O S (1915) and The Field of the Slain (1916), an elderly refugee from the optimistic Victorian age confronted the horror of total war, and a believer in spiritualism imagined a world of darkness.
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