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George Frederick Watts - LoveToKnow 1911 |
 | | GEORGE FREDERICK WATTS (1817-1904), English painter and sculptor, was born in London on the 23rd of February 1817. |
 | | It led, moreover, to a commission for the fresco of "St George overcomes the Dragon," which, begun in 1848 and finished in 1853, forms part of the decorations of the Hall of the Poets in the Houses of Parliament. |
 | | A similar proposition made shortly afterwards to the Benchers of Lincoln's Inn was received in a less commercial spirit, and was followed by the execution of the fresco, "Justice: a Hemicycle of Lawgivers," on the north side of their hall. |
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