De Morgan Collection partners with Art UK
We have partnered with Art UK, the country's premier online paintings catalogue, to present all of the paintings in our collection digitally for your [...]
Misattribution of Aurora
In 1901, Merton Russell-Cotes purchased Aurora Triumphans (1877-78), a glorious painting of angels trumpeting in the breaking dawn. Monogrammed ‘EBJ 1870’ and attributed therefore to Edward Burne-Jones, [...]
This week, we’re celebrating Burne-Jones
De Morgan volunteer, Vanessa Cumper, introduces you to Burne-Jones and shares some of her sketches of the man and his art in this week's blog. [...]
We’re getting ready to welcome you back!
Following the Government announcement last week that museums can begin to reopen from 4th July, museums across the UK are opening in phases, and De [...]
Living at Spencer Stanhope’s House
De Morgan Trustee and volunteer tour guide, Richard, describes his experience of living at Hill House in Barnsley, once the studio-home of John Roddam [...]
An Inspiration to Waterhouse
Lamia, by John William Waterhouse Lamia, the ancient Greek sorceress, was the subject of Keats 1812 poem. In colourful language, he describes [...]
Could this portrait be by William De Morgan?
This is supposedly a painting of Mary De Morgan. It last came up for auction at Christie's in 2002 when it was bought by Rachel [...]
Mary De Morgan – William’s amazing little sister
This week, author and Mary De Morgan enthusiast Marilyn Pemberton has somehow managed to shorten her extensive research on Mary De Morgan's life and works [...]
Toy Gods – Wilhelmina Stirling as an author by Jesse Hellman
The Souls Prison house by Evelyn De Morgan In 1904 Evelyn De Morgan’s younger sister Wilhelmina Pickering Stirling published her novel Toy [...]
A Passion to Preserve Evelyn’s Paintings
Evelyn De Morgan passed away on 2 May 1919, leaving behind her a brilliant and beautiful collection of feminist, pacifist paintings and drawings which [...]