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Ellen Terry ('Choosing') by George Frederic Watts. oil on strawboard mounted on Gatorfoam, 1864. 18 5/8 in. x 13 7/8 in. (472 mm x 352 mm) overall. Accepted in lieu of tax by H.M. Government and allocated to the Gallery, 1975. Primary Collection.
May 13, 2013 · Famous works. Short Films. Added: 27 Mar, 2024. Inspired by a true story, Invincible recounts the last 48 hours in the life of Marc-Antoine Bernier, a 14-year-old boy on a desperate quest for freedom. ‘Choosing’ was created by George Frederick Watts in Romanticism style.
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View all 133 artworks. George Frederick Watts lived in the XIX – XX cent., a remarkable figure of British Symbolism. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
- British
- February 23, 1817
- Marylebone, London, United Kingdom
- July 1, 1904
Jul 18, 2005 · Choosing. George Frederic Watts RA (1817-1904) 1864. Oil on board. 18 ⅝ x 13 ⅞ inches (47.2 x 35.2 cm). Collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London, accession no. NPG 5048.
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- The Legacy of George Frederic Watts
George Frederic Watts was born in Middlesex, a historic county in the south east of England that has since been swallowed up by London. His father was a piano maker and because of his love for music, named his son after the composer, George Frederic Handel, who shared the same birthday. The young Watts was a sickly child and as such was unable to a...
Watts initially studied work by respected Old Masters, as well as more immediate predecessors including Richard Westall and John Hamilton Mortimer, and made accurate imitative sketches of various works. He joined the Royal Academy at the age of 18 and further developed his art historical studies. At this point however, he had already secured the pa...
Later in the 1840s Watts reached a turning point in his art as he moved towards social realism - a term used for work designed to draw attention to the everyday conditions of the working class and to voice the authors' critique of the social structures behind these conditions. Watts had become disturbed by the increasing poverty seen in London and ...
In 1884 Watts was bestowed with the honor of becoming the first living artist to be offered a solo exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Indeed, he was hailed at this time to be "the greatest painter since the Old Masters". Social concerns continued to preoccupy the artist - although themes were also highly poetic and allegorica...
Despite being famous at the end of his career, Watts' critical appeal quickly declined, and after his death he was dismissed as "one of the great failures of British art". He was branded "irrelevant" and sidelined as a Victorian oddity, with the work of the Pre-Raphaelites often being remembered as Britain's most interesting contribution to art at ...
- British
- February 23, 1817
- London, England
- July 1, 1904
George Frederic Watts. George Frederic Watts OM RA (23 February 1817 – 1 July 1904) was a British painter and sculptor associated with the Symbolist movement. He said "I paint ideas, not things." [1] Watts became famous in his lifetime for his allegorical works, such as Hope and Love and Life.
Apr 15, 2024 · George Frederick Watts was an English painter and sculptor of grandiose allegorical themes. Watts believed that art should preach a universal message, but his subject matter, conceived in terms of vague abstract ideals, is full of symbolism that is often obscure and today seems superficial.
