“I want to tell them of what the flowers talk about when the garden is very still.”
About Philip Bourke Marston
13 August 1850–13 February 1887
Philip Bourke Marston was born in London on 13 August 1850 and died there on 13 February 1887, only thirty-six years later. His short life was shaped by an unusually concentrated mixture of literary privilege, physical disability, bereavement, emotional intensity, and artistic determination. During his lifetime he was…