Let Us Go Forward: The Soul, Spiritualism, and the Funerary Commemoration of Richard Cosway, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Evelyn De Morgan

This chapter considers the ways in which the funerary commemoration erected in respect of three nineteenth-century British painters, Richard Cosway (d. 1821), Dante Gabriel Rossetti (d. 1882), and Evelyn De Morgan (d.1919), came to be influenced by the growth in esoteric notions of the soul as the root of spiritual love, and its persistence into the afterlife. That each memorial was either designed, or commissioned, by a “soulmate” or with a “soulmate” in mind, adds further interest in the exploration of the designs with reference to the Victorian soul as the key to an unbreakable connection despite death.