Frederick Waters Watts - Artist Info

About Frederick Waters Watts

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    Landscape painter Watts lived on Hampstead High Street in London in 1821, at the same time as William Constable (1783-1861) who had a great influence on his painting style. Constable was aware of Watts' attempts to work in his style and remarked on the similarity when both had works hanging in the same exhibition.

    A landscape painter, Frederick Water Watts has often been mistakenly called Frederick William Watts. "According to his second wife, Julia Watts, he was born in Bath, Somerset, on 7 October 1800. His father had been in the navy, and his mother was Mary Eyre, daughter of Ambrose Eyre, rector of Leverington, Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire; he may also be the Frederic Waters Watts, son of William and Mary Watts, who was bap...

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