 His Psyche paintings were most likely based on the narrative poem of William Morris that was a retelling of the version by Apuleius.In Stanhope’s vision, the ferryman is a calm and patriarchal figure more in keeping with the Charon of the archaic Greek lekythoi than the fearsome antagonist often found in Christian-era art and literature.The contemporary artist Bradley Platz extends the theme of Charon’s obol as a viatical food in his oil-on-canvas work "Charon and the Shades" (2007).