George Frederic Watts
1817–1904
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Biography
George Frederic Watts (23 February 1817, in London – 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 "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 The Minotaur
1885 -
George Frederic Watts Mammon
1884–5 -
George Frederic Watts Love and Death
c.1885–7 -
George Frederic Watts and assistants Chaos
c.1875–82 -
George Frederic Watts Love and Life
c.1884–5 -
George Frederic Watts Sic Transit
1891–2 -
George Frederic Watts Time, Death and Judgement
1900
Artist as subject
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George Frederic Watts Self-Portrait
1864 -
Sir Charles Holroyd Sketch of G.F. Watts
1897 -
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
Nicholas Tromans discusses the challenges and opportunities faced by an ambitious small museum, the Watts Gallery, based on a single …
Features
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Tate Etc
G.F. Watts: symbolist and star-gazer
G.F. Watts (1817–1904) has been variously described as one of the ‘heroic failures of British art’ and ‘shallow and pretentious’. …
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Tate Papers
Listening for the Sublime: Aural-Visual Improvisations in Nineteenth-Century Musical Art
Music’s capacity to expose the contradictions which emerged within late nineteenth-century understandings of the sublime is explored in relation to …
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Tate Papers
A Dramatic Reading of Augustus Leopold Egg’s Untitled Triptych
This article explores the significance of the theatrical and literary references found in the triptych Past and Present 1858 by …
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Tate Papers
The Materials Used by British Oil Painters in the Nineteenth Century
This paper reviews existing literature on nineteenth-century British artists’ materials. Sources of information, such as colourmen’s archives, artists’ diaries and …
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Tate Etc
Where there's life, there's...: George Frederic Watts's 'Hope'
Paul Barlow looks at George Frederic Watts’s Hope
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