Lustrous lives
IT was an artistic fancy dress party in August 1883. Evelyn Pickering was dressed as a tube of rose-madder paint and William de Morgan declared that he was ‘madder still’. The chance meeting marked the beginning of a partnership between two of the most illustrious and eccentric figures of the Arts-and-Crafts Movement, who were loved and respected by their wide circle of artistic friends.
The de Morgans—‘rare souls’, as Evelyn’s teacher Sir Edward Poynter called them—were already established in their own
