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George Frederic Watts (23 February 1817 – 1 July 1904) was a British painter and sculptor associated with the Symbolist movement. He said "I paint ideas, not things." Watts became famous in his lifetime for his allegorical works, such as Hope and Love and Life. These paintings were intended to form part of an epic symbolic cycle called the ...
1817 - 1904. Watts was able to support himself as an artist from the age of 16. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1837 onwards and in 1843 won a prize in a competition for decorations for the new Palace of Westminster. He travelled in Italy from 1843 to 1847, where he was taken with a passion for landscape painting in Tuscany in 1845.
George Frederic Watts is buried close to the chapel. Contemporary Comment from The Pall Mall Gazette of 1892 There is nothing more satisfactory about the year's art than the evidence we find here that this veteran of English painting is renewing his youth in his seventies. His portrait of Mr Walter Crane, in the New Gallery, which justly holds ...
GF Watts, The Minotaur. George Frederic Watts, The Minotaur, 1885, oil on canvas, 118 x 94.5 cm (Tate Britain, London) George Frederic Watts was a colossus of the Victorian art world. The first living artist to have a solo exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, in his heyday Watts was the most celebrated painter in the country, and ...
George Frederic Watts (1817–1904) (and assistants) (Born London, 23 February 1817; died London, 1 July 1904). English painter and sculptor. In 1843 he won a prize in the competition for the decoration of the Houses of Parliament; no commission resulted from this, but he used the prize money to visit Italy, where the great Renaissance masters ...
Photographic portrait of George Frederic Watts. George Frederic Watts OM, RA (1817–1904) was one of the most successful British artists of the 19th century. He painted portraits, landscapes, and pictures exploring themes and ideas of the time, such as the Irish Famine or animal cruelty. He also painted ‘Symbolist’ pictures which often had ...
George Frederic Watts RA. Drapery study for the figure of Justinian in 'Justice', between 1852-59. Black and white chalk on thin, blue laid paper. George Frederic Watts RA. Study of a boy's head for 'The Red Cross Knight Overcoming the Dragon', by 1853. Black chalk on thick wove paper. George Frederic Watts RA.
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