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Post by leandros nikon on Mar 11, 2011 18:32:55 GMT -5
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Spartali_StillmanMarie Euphrosyne Spartali, later Stillman (10 March 1844 – 6 March 1927), was a British Pre-Raphaelite painter of Greek descent, arguably the greatest female artist of that movement. During a sixty-year career she produced over one hundred works, contributing regularly to galleries in Great Britain and the United States.(photos taken from wikipedia) Maria Spartali was the youngest daughter of Michael Spartali (1818–1914), a wealthy merchant, principal of the firm Spartali & Co and Greek consul-general based in London from 1866 to 1882. He had moved to London around 1828.[1] In London he married, and Euphrosyne (known as Effie, née Varsami, 1842–1913), the daughter of*greek merchant from Genoa. She and her cousins Maria Zambaco and Aglaia Coronio were known collectively among friends as "the Three Graces", after the Charites of Greek mythology (Aglaia, Euphrosyne and Thalia), as all three were noted beauties of Greek heritage. It was in the house of the Greek businessman A.C. Ionides (1810–1890) at Tulse Hill, in south London, that Marie and her sister Christine (1846–1884) met Whistler and Swinburne for the first time. They were dressed in white with blue ribbon sashes. Swinburne was so overcome that he said of Spartali: "She is so beautiful that I want to sit down and cry". for more information,read here...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Spartali_Stillman
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