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Study of standing female figure holding a basket, for the painting ‘The Cadence of Autumn’

Artist: De Morgan, Evelyn

Study of standing female figure holding a basket, for the painting ‘The Cadence of Autumn’

Artist: De Morgan, Evelyn

Two studies of male hands with draped sleeve

Artist: De Morgan, Evelyn

Sketch in pencil at watercolour of angels and landscape

Artist: De Morgan, Evelyn

Study of swirling drapery

Artist: De Morgan, Evelyn

Study of a standing female in drapery

Artist: De Morgan, Evelyn

Study of male head and hands holding an oar

Artist: De Morgan, Evelyn

Study of seated, draped female figure, associated with the painting ‘Light Shineth in the Darkness’

Artist: De Morgan, Evelyn

Portrait of Jane Hales

Artist: De Morgan, Evelyn

‘The Madonna of the Magnificat’ after Botticelli, detail: heads of two boys

Artist: De Morgan, Evelyn

Evelyn De Morgan travelled to Italy on numerous occasions from the early 1870s until 1914. Whilst there she visited the Academia and the Uffizi to study the work of the great Masters. This watercolour drawing of Botticelli’s ‘Madonna of the Magnificat” was one of a series of paintings by artists such as Botticelli and Leonardo Da Vinci which Evelyn copied for the purposes of her own enjoyment and elucidation. In the 1870s it was Botticelli’s most celebrated painting.