Watts was able to support himself as an artist from the age of 16. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1837 onwards and in 1843 won a prize in a competition for decorations for the new Palace of Westminster. He travelled in Italy from 1843 to 1847, where he was taken with a passion for landscape painting in Tuscany in 1845. In later years Watts was famous for his Symbolist paintings and sculptures and for some of the finest portrait paintings of the Victorian era.
George Frederic Watts
1817 - 1904
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Paintings by George Frederic Watts
Paintings previously owned by George Frederic Watts
A young man with fair hair and blue eyes is shown from the side, with nothing to indicate his identity or social status. The picture is painted on a paper support, which may originally have been laid down on a panel; it is now mounted on canvas.Profile portraits like this had largely gone out of...
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