George Frederic Watts
1817–1904
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George Frederic Watts, RA (London 23 February 1817 – 1 July 1904) was an English Victorian 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 "House of Life", in which the emotions and aspirations of life would all be represented in a universal symbolic language.
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George Frederic Watts and assistants Hope
1886
George Frederic Watts Mammon
1884–5
George Frederic Watts Love and Death
c.1885–7
George Frederic Watts Love and Life
c.1884–5
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Anita Bartle, Grant Richards (London, UK) This is my Birthday
1902
Henry Scott Tuke Diary of Henry Scott Tuke
12 March 1899–31 December 1905
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Nicholas Tromans – Limnerlease and Watts Gallery
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George Frederic Watts - The Eve Trilogy
Tate curator of 19th century British art, Alison Smith, talks about five George Frederic Watts works in the Tate Collection
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George Frederic Watts - The Court of Death 1870-1902
Tate curator of 19th century British art, Alison Smith, talks about five George Frederic Watts works in the Tate Collection.
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The Materials Used by British Oil Painters in the Nineteenth Century
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Where there's life, there's...: George Frederic Watts's 'Hope'
Paul Barlow looks at George Frederic Watts’s Hope
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