ARTWORKS ON LOAN
The De Morgan Foundation frequently lends artworks from our collection to exhibitions in the UK and around the world.
Here are some of the current and past loans we have made.
Current Loans
News coming soon
Artworks on Long Term Loan
The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Over 30 ceramics by William De Morgan are on long-term loan from the De Morgan Collection to the Ashmolean, in a dedicated display case in the 19th century galleries.
The Faith Museum, Bishop Auckland
Evelyn De Morgan’s painting S.O.S. (Save Our Souls) is on display in the Faith Museum in a gallery exploring Faith under Fire. The Faith Museum explores 6,000 years of British history through the lens of faith.
Past Loans
Sun and Moon
The Sun and The Moon: Art Inspired by the Celestial is a major exhibition exploring how the two most powerful phenomena in the sky have inspired creativity, curiosity, and belief throughout human history and across different cultures. The exhibition unfolds as a journey through a complete 24-hour cycle, moving from dawn through daylight, into the depths of the night. Evelyn De Morgan’s painting Night and Dawn was loaned to the exhibition
Until 8th September 2026
Location: Saatchi Gallery
The Empire of Sleep
This exhibition explored the symbolic and allegorical implications of sleep and the ways in which sleep-related scientific, philosophical and psychoanalytical research have influenced art. The exhibition focused on artworks from 1800 – 1920, together with works from Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern and contemporary works, to highlight enduring themes related to sleep.
Until 1st March 2026
Location: Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris
Apocalypse
Ruined cities, violent volcanic eruptions, melting glaciers, throughout history artists have been fascinated by catastrophes, from biblical accounts of the Last Judgement to the present era’s anxiety over war, climate change and AI. Two Evelyn De Morgan paintings are on loan; Children of Night: Sleep and Death, and The Kingdom of Heaven
Until 22nd January 2026
Location: Gothenburg Museum of Art, Sweden
The Nature of Gothic
Inspired by John Ruskin’s phrase “the nature of gothic”, this exhibition explores how artists across centuries have represented the natural world. It includes Blackburn’s collection of medieval and Islamic manuscripts, works from the Arts and Crafts Movement and by the Pre-Raphaelites. Four William De Morgan ceramics are on loan.
Until 13th December 2025
Location: Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery
Sorcières
Feared, rejected and hunted down for centuries, witches have left their mark on the collective imagination as the incarnation of absolute evil… before becoming a symbol of revolt and resistance in the 19th century. Evelyn De Morgan’s painting The Love Potion was on loan to this exhibition exploring the place Witches occupy in our collective imagination.
June to November 2025
Location: Pont-Aven Museum, Brittany
Scented Visions
May to November 2025
Location: Watts Gallery
Evelyn De Morgan’s painting The Cadence of Autumn was on loan to the exhibition Scented Visions: Smell in Art 1850—1915
Creating A Room of One’s Own
June to September 2025
Location: Clark Art Institute, Massachusetts, USA
Two Evelyn De Morgan paintings were loaned to the exhibition Women Artist-Activists in Britain 1880-1945: Creating A Room of One’s Own, The Red Cross, and Phosphorus and Hesperus, plus the Slade Silver Medal she was awarded for life drawing
Preraffaelliti
February to June 2024
Location: Museo Civico San Domenico Forlì, Italy
Evelyn De Morgan’s Ariadne at Naxos and William De Morgan’s Cantagalli Vase were included in one of the largest international exhibitions focusing on Pre-Raphaelite art.
Dreams and Stories
October 2022 to February 2023
Location: Watts Gallery – Artists’ Village, Surrey, GU3 1DQ
Evelyn De Morgan’s Queen Eleanor and the Fair Rosamund and Evening Star Over the Sea were displayed alongside other works by ‘second-generation Pre-Raphaelites’.
The Legend of King Arthur
February – June 2023
Location: Tullie House, Carlise, CA3 8TP
Evelyn De Morgan’s The Love Potion was exhibited alongside Pre-Raphaelite pictures which demonstrate the artists’ love of myth and legend relating to King Arthur.
Ulysses: Art and Myth
Musei San Domenico, Forli, Italy
February to October 2020
The Little Sea Maid by Evelyn De Morgan joined other paintings of mythical mermaids and monsters encountered by Ulysses in Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey. The show focused on how Ulysses’ story has been interpreted by artists and writers from antiquity to the present day.
The Enchanted Interior
1st – 30th August (weekends only), Guildhall Art Gallery, London
The Gilded Cage, The Love Potion and The Hourglass were especially chosen for inclusion in this exhibition which examined how the domestic sphere has been interpreted and reinterpreted as a space for women, since the mid-19th century.
We Capitalists – From Zero to Turbo
Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany
March to August 2020
Capitalism is an economic system and a social order that has shaped our thinking, perception and existence for centuries. Approaching the topic from a cultural and historical perspective, the exhibition examined its fundamental characteristics; individualisation, accumulation, unrestricted growth and creative crises.
Troy: Myth and Reality
November 2019 to March 2020
Location: The British Museum, London
This exhibition explored how Troy has been understood and interpreted through stories, artworks and archaeology over the centuries. Evelyn De Morgan was inspired by classical literature and her paintings Helen of Troy and Cassandra were included in this show, rare examples of artworks centred on the female characters in the story.
Pre-Raphaelite Sisters
October 2019 to January 2020
Location: National Portrait Gallery, London
Evelyn De Morgan’s beautiful pictures The Dryad, Night and Sleep and Queen Eleanor and Fair Rosamund from the De Morgan Collection were on display alongside other paintings by and stories of women associated with Pre-Raphaelitism.
The Rise of Islamic Art
July to October 2019
Location: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
William De Morgan’s Fish and Saz Leaf Bowl and Prunus Tile Panel were on display alongside original examples of the Islamic Art which inspired him.