William Frend De Morgan
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
William Frend De Morgan 1839-1917, English artist and novelist; son of Augustus De Morgan. A famous potter, he designed glass and tiles and rediscovered an old process of making colored lusterware. When he was 66 he retired from business and turned to writing novels, which were quite popular and brought him a large income. They include Joseph Vance (1906) and When Ghost Meets Ghost (1914).
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Pottery that fired the imagination of a great perfectionist; Antiques and Auctions - ARTS AND CRAFTS MOVEMENT: William de Morgan studied painting, furniture and stained glass long before being drawn to pottery and becoming a great like his mentors.(Features)
; ...patterns pretty well sums up William Frend de Morgan (1839-1917), a leading English pottery...Academy schools in London from 185961, de Morgan grew to appreciate the way his friends...success of his stained glass that led de Morgan to pottery and to become the designer...
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ANTIQUES & COLLECTING: Putting flesh on Arts and Crafts treasures; Sally Hoban discovers there's a a visual feast waiting for lovers of Victorian design and the Arts and Crafts Movement in Wolverhampton.(Features)
; ...there are outstanding pieces of William De Morgan pottery and tiles in almost every room. The De Morgan pieces are some of the finest still in...house in Holland Park, London. William De Morgan was one of the greatest ceramic artists...
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Equations from God: Pure Mathematics and Victorian Faith.(Book review)
; ...George Boole (1815-1864) and Augustus De Morgan (1806-1871) to use mathematical logic...stripped-down, austere future; and Augustus De Morgan strives further forward out of religious...mathematical idealism in humble rhetoric. De Morgan was the principal founder of the London...
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Evelyn De Morgan.(Report from Europe)(Brief Article)
; Evelyn De Morgan (nee Pickering) was born in 1855 and...in London. In 1887 she married William De Morgan, a potter, painter, designer, and novelist...London. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Evelyn De Morgan's inspiration came from the Italian Renaissance...
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Nights on the tiles can enhance your home; ANTIQUES & COLLECTING SALLY HOBAN delves into the world of antique tile collecting and discovers a hobby that will enhance the look of your home.(News)
; ...designer among collectors now is William de Morgan, who was based in London but also had...with the Birmingham School of Art. The de Morgan pieces at Wightwick Manor in Wolverhampton...There is also a superb collection of de Morgan tiles on permanent display at Birmingham...
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 "The Mail on Sunday (London, England)")
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The fireplace worth a cool [pounds sterling]100,000...
; ...Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, is a William De Morgan tiled fireplace worth up to pound sterling100...walked into the billiard room and saw the De Morgan fireplace, I immediately said I'd have...has also tried to install more William De Morgan treasures at Fox Oak. He says: 'I was...
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If you can't afford the picture worth millions perhaps a tile is your style millions, COLLECTING.
; ...among 11 works being sold by the William de Morgan Foundation to fund a move from tiny cramped...Wandsworth, south-west London. William de Morgan and his wife Evelyn were leading lights...of owning a Stanhope from the William de Morgan Foundation, de Morgan work from ...
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A collection of British art pottery and fin de siecle decorative arts.(Living with antiques)
; ...plentiful were the ceramics made by William De Morgan. The important baluster vase in Figure 18, decorated by Fred Passenger in what De Morgan described as Persian colors, belonged...been among the items he loaned to the De Morgan memorial exhibition held at the Victoria...
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IN BRIEF : Receivers in
; Receivers were yesterday appointed at de Morgan, the property consultancy, after attempts at refinancing failed.
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Tall tiles from De Morgan.
; ARTS and Crafts ceramicist William De Morgan was happy to turn his hand to rather...ships survive, three panels - one by De Morgan and two by his architect colleague, Halsey...form the centrepiece of a new William De Morgan exhibition opening next week. It runs...
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de Morgan, William (Frend)
de Morgan, William (Frend) (1839–1917), at first devoted his attention to art and in particular to the production of stained glass and glazed pottery...1919) and The Old Man's Youth (1921), left unfinished on his death, were skilfully completed by his widow, the artist Evelyn de Morgan.
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Ricardo, Halsey Ralph
...Portuguese-Dutch Jewish descent. He established his practice in 1878, and from 1888 to 1898 was in partnership with William Frend de Morgan (1839–1917), for whom he designed relief tiles, vases, and other artefacts. Ricardo advocated the use...
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...tutors for Lovelace. With the help of William Frend, her old mathematics tutor, she was...of thirteen, she corresponded with Frend, who influenced her studies in astronomy...studying mathematics that went beyond Frend's understanding. By the time she was...much later. In 1835 Lovelace married ...
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Ada Byron Lovelace, Countess of Lovelace
...tutors of high distinction for her such as William Frend, a Cambridge mathematician, who instructed...geometry. Another tutor, Augustus De Morgan, was the first Professor of Mathematics...Lovelace On July 8, 1835, Ada Byron married William King who was then the eighth Baron King...
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