Mrs (Mary) Evelyn Pickering de Morgan
Other names: née Pickering
Born 30 August 1855
Died 2 May 1919
Active: 1873 - 1919
Country of birth and death: England
Painter, sculptor
Born and died in London. She studied at the Slade and in Italy. Afterwards establishing herself in London and exhibiting at the Grosvenor gallery, Bruton gallery and had a solo exhibition at Wolverhampton Art Gallery in 1906. She was primarily a painter.
Wealth at death: £18,518 6s. 2d.
Probate date: 23 June 1919
Works
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Locations
Address 48 Bryanston Manchester | View on map
1883 (Circa)
Address 1 The Vale Chelsea London SW | View on map
1887 - 1910
Address 127 Church Street Chelsea London | View on map
1910 - 1919
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society: First Exhibition, 1888
'Head of Medusa'
Exhibited at Corporation of Manchester Art Gallery, Royal Institution, First Autumn Exhibition, 1883
'Medusa'
Personal and Professional Connections
Cousin of (Mary) Gertrude Spencer Stanhope
Niece/nephew of John Roddam Spencer Stanhope
John Roddam was a teacher to Evelyn
Wife/husband/spouse to William de Morgan
1887
Descriptions of Practice
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1891
'Artist Sculp' and her husband William de Morgan 'Potter Earth' both neither employer nor employed
Sources
Arts and Crafts Society: Catalogue of the First Exhibition.
1888
p.141.
Arts and Crafts Society: Catalogue of the Second Exhibition.
1889
Catalogue of the First Autumn Exhibition, 1883
1883
Cat. No. 865, pp. 62, 85
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1891
2004
Class: RG12; Piece: 58; Folio: 143; Page: 25; GSU roll: 6095168
England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966
2010
Name: Mary Evelyn De Morgan
Probate Date: 23 Jun 1919
Death Date: 2 May 1919
Death Place: Middlesex, England
Registry: London, England
Magazine of Art
Charlotte J. Weeks, 'Women at Work: the Slade Girls', January, 1883, pp. 324-29
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
2004
Rachel S. Gear, 'Morgan, (Mary) Evelyn De (1855-1919)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2006 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/45491, accessed 10 Dec 2013]
Citing this record
'Mrs (Mary) Evelyn Pickering de Morgan', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib2_1209581958, accessed 02 Jun 2023]
