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1817 Marylebone, London, England - 1904 Compton, Surrey, England. Known for: Symbolist easel and mural painting, sculpture, history, landscape, portraits.
George Frederic Watts, OM, was a popular English Victorian painter and sculptor associated with the Symbolist* movement. Watts became famous in his lifetime for his allegorical works, such as Hope... Read full biography
George Frederic Watts, OM, was a popular English Victorian painter and sculptor associated with the Symbolist* movement. 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... Read full biography
George Frederic Watts, OM, was a popular English Victorian painter and sculptor associated with the Symbolist* movement. 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. Watts was born in Marylebone, London on the birthday of George Frederic Handel... Read full biography
George Frederic Watts, OM, was a popular English Victorian painter and sculptor associated with the Symbolist* movement. 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. Watts was born in Marylebone, London on the birthday of George Frederic Handel (after whom he was named), to the second wife of a poor piano-maker. Delicate in health and with his mother dying while he was still young, he was home-schooled by his father in a conservative interpretation of Christianity as well as via the classics... Read full biography
George Frederic Watts, OM, was a popular English Victorian painter and sculptor associated with the Symbolist* movement. 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. Watts was born in Marylebone, London on the birthday of George Frederic Handel (after whom he was named), to the second wife of a poor piano-maker. Delicate in health and with his mother dying while he was still young, he was home-schooled by his father in a conservative interpretation of Christianity as well as via the classics such as the Iliad - the former put him off conventional religion for life, whilst the latter was a continual influen... Read full biography
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Art Subject
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Portraits, Portraiture
Chronology
- •Early 19th Century Before Civil War
- •Late 19th Century, After Civil War
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- •Figure Specialty
- •Genre Specialty