Hopes for a John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope chain reaction
Along with his famous Pre-Raphaelite colleagues Edward Burne-Jones, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and George Frederic Watts, John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope was often influenced by the tales of classical antiquity and the paintings of Italian Old Masters.
In the case of his 4ft 3in x 21in (1.28m x 53cm) canvas Andromeda he found his literary inspiratio…