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vanity of human desires, and "The people that sat in darkness," turning eagerly towards the growing dawn. In 1850 he first gave public expression to his intense longing to improve the condition of humanity in the picture of "The Good Samaritan" bending over the wounded traveller; this, as recorded in the catalogue of the Royal Academy, was "painted as an expression of the artist's admiration and respect for the noble philanthropy of
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Leaving Florence in April 1847 for what was intended to be a brief return to London, he ended up staying. After obtaining a first-class prize of £500, his winning painting at the exhibition in Westminster Hall was purchased by the government, and was hung in one of the committee rooms of the House of
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only three months before he died. Both Limnerslease and the chapel are now maintained, and the house owned, by the Watts Gallery. In 2016 Watts's studio in the house re-opened, restored as far as possible using photographs from Watts's lifetime, as part of the Watts Gallery, and the main residential
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is an allegory of human vitality and humanity's ceaseless struggle for betterment; he said it was "a symbol of that restless physical impulse to seek the still unachieved in the domain of material things". It also embodied the artist's belief that access to great art would bring immense benefits to
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He was also admired as a portrait painter. His portraits were of the most important men and women of the day, intended to form a "House of Fame". In his portraits Watts sought to create a tension between disciplined stability and the power of action. He was also notable for emphasising the signs of
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While the Lincoln's Inn undertaking was still in progress, Watts was working steadily at pictures and portraits. In 1849 the first two of the allegorical compositions which form the most characteristic of the artist's productions were exhibited—"Life's Illusions," an elaborate presentment of the
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in 1843. Watts won a first prize in the competition, which was intended to promote narrative paintings on patriotic subjects, appropriate to the nation's legislature, securing a prize of £300. In the end Watts made little contribution to the Westminster decorations, but from it he conceived his
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He first exhibited at the Academy in 1837, with a picture of "The Wounded Heron" and two portraits, but his attendance at the Academy was short-lived, and his further art education was confined to personal experiment and endeavour, guided by a constant appeal to the standard of ancient Greek
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wrote his Sixth Symphony "In Memoriam G. F. Watts". It was composed in 1905 and first performed on 18 January 1906 in London under Stanford's direction. The four movements, although not having a detailed programme, are inspired by several works of art by Watts.
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Back in Britain he was unable to obtain a building in which to carry out his plan of a grand fresco based on his Italian experiences, though he did produce a 45 ft by 40 ft fresco on the upper part of the east wall of the Great Hall of
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nearby, a museum dedicated to his work – the first (and now the only) purpose-built gallery in Britain devoted to a single artist – which opened in April 1904, shortly before his death, and received a major expansion between 2006 and 2011.
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traditions with a deliberately agitated and troubled surface, to suggest the dynamic energies of life and evolution, as well as the tentative and transitory qualities of life. These works formed part of a revised version of the
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Commons. It led, moreover, to a commission for the fresco of "St George overcomes the Dragon," which, begun in 1848 and finished in 1853, formed part of the decorations of the Hall of the Poets in the Houses of Parliament.
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The memorial was unveiled in an unfinished state in 1900, consisting of a 50-foot (15 m) wooden loggia designed by Ernest George, sheltering a wall with space for 120 ceramic memorial tiles to be designed and made by
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to commemorate ordinary people who had died saving the lives of others, and who might otherwise have been forgotten. The scheme was not accepted at that time, but in 1898 Watts was approached by
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already had homes on the island. To maintain his friendship with the Prinsep family as their children began leaving home, he built The Briary for them near Freshwater, and adopted their relative
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The prize from the Westminster competition did, however, fund a long visit to Italy from 1843 onwards, where Watts stayed and became friends with the British ambassador
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and other famous Frenchmen. Apart from some visits to Italy, Greece and Egypt, the greater part of his subsequent life was passed in the seclusion of his home studios.
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With the lease on Little Holland House nearing its end and the building soon to be demolished, in the early 1870s he commissioned a new London home nearby from
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emphasised Watts's spiritual and stylistic importance, also noting that late post-symbolist works such as
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vision of a building covered with murals representing the spiritual and social evolution of humanity.
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strain and wear on his sitter's faces. Of his British subjects many are now in the collection of the
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in 1856–57, via Constantinople and the Greek islands. In 1856 Watts paid a visit to Lord Holland at
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Although best known as a painter, Watts was also a sculptor. After completing a commission for the
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sculpture. He also began his portraiture career, receiving patronage from his close contemporary
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for the next 21 years. (The building was the dower house on the Hollands' London estate in
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Alfred Inciting the Saxons to Prevent the Landing of the Danes by Encountering them at Sea
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This includes a longer list of his portraits and an extended critical summary of his art.
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Several reverent biographies of Watts were written shortly after his death; and one (by
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In his late paintings, Watts's creative aspirations mutate into mystical images such as
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then travelled to Cape Town to form part of a memorial to the founder of Rhodesia (now
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to the Royal Academy in 1867 and accepted to be one of the original members of the new
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movement. Watts became famous in his lifetime for his allegorical works, such as
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Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, DC
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and Edward, Prince of Wales – Watts proposed, in 1887, to commemorate the
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list published on 26 June 1902, and he received the insignia from King
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The culmination of Watts's ambition in the field of public sculpture,
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The complex history surrounding the decoration is best summarized by
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
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portrays him in a satirical manner, an approach also adopted by
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George Frederic Watts, 1898, platinum print by Frederick Hollyer
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Discovering the Sculptures of George Frederick Watts O.M., R.A.
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G.F. Watts: Portraits, Fame & Beauty in Victorian Society
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England's Michelangelo: A Biography of George Frederick Watts
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altered during the 1870s, as his work increasingly combined
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One of only two pupils Watts ever accepted was Henry's son
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The Decorations of the New Palace of Westminster 1841–1863
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George Frederic Watts's Memorial to Heroic Self Sacrifice
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for an equestrian monument to commemorate his ancestor,
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church. He suggested the memorial could be created in
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Oxford University Press. 794:Refusing the baronetcy twice offered him by 552: 327: 2105: 2091: 2051:, with eight reproductions in colour. (by 631:Watts's association with Rossetti and the 379: 49: 2112: 1938:(1975) by Wilfrid Blunt, Hamish Hamilton. 1609:Learn how and when to remove this message 1127:, a positive study of his life and work. 766:section can be visited on a guided tour. 685:– his friends Julia Margaret Cameron and 2043:Watts (1817–1904) by William Loftus Hare 1825: 1572:This article includes a list of general 1034: 956: 936: 768: 746: 707: 658: 569:by his friend the social reformer Canon 286: 1999:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 1043:An admirer of royalty – he had painted 524:, and stayed there with them and their 376:, who later came to be a close friend. 2246: 1708: 1548:Aberdeen Archives, Gallery and Museums 1530:Aberdeen Archives, Gallery and Museums 2086: 1887:Theoria: Art and the Absence of Grace 1125:G. F. Watts: The Last Great Victorian 830:, in which Watts seems to anticipate 789: 336:in central London on the birthday of 2035:, 392 works by George Frederic Watts 1915: 1847:"National Portrait Gallery - Person" 1735: 1667: 1558: 1095:, however, his reputation declined. 456: 366: 782:Many of his paintings are owned by 626: 575:The Triumph of the Red Cross Knight 449:, on a patriotic subject but using 13: 2349:Royal Society of Portrait Painters 2078:Focus on "Thetis"-artwork analysis 1889:. London, Chatto and Windus, 1988. 1623: 1578:it lacks sufficient corresponding 930: 889:James Parke, 1st Baron Wensleydale 400: 350:, starting to study devotedly the 14: 2370: 2304:20th-century English male artists 2289:19th-century English male artists 2233:Memorial to Heroic Self-Sacrifice 1961: 1835:. 2 September 1902. p. 5679. 1053:Memorial to Heroic Self-Sacrifice 1031:Memorial to Heroic Self-Sacrifice 1025:Memorial to Heroic Self-Sacrifice 821: 606: 491: 472:Justice, A Hemicycle of Lawgivers 1966: 1903: 1563: 1536: 1518: 1501: 1484: 1469: 1454: 1435: 1420: 1403: 1384: 1366: 1348: 1333: 1317: 1301: 1285: 1268: 1254: 1240: 1223: 1209: 1195: 1178: 1049:Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria 911:in 1867. 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George Fiddes Watt
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Marylebone
Middlesex
London
William Behnes
Royal Academy Schools
Hope
Physical Energy
Symbolist
Ellen Terry
Mary Fraser Tytler
Order of Merit
Alexander Constantine Ionides


Miss May Prinsep
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Hope
Marylebone
George Frederic Handel
Iliad
William Behnes
Elgin Marbles
Royal Academy Schools
Alexander Constantine Ionides

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