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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.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /George_Frederick_Watts   (1842 words)

  
 George Frederic Watts - MalibuMountainWiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
George Frederic Watts, OM (23 February 1817 - 1 July 1904; sometimes spelt 'George Frederick Watts') was a popular English Victorian painter and sculptor associated with the Symbolism Arts movement.
Watts was born in Marylebone, London, the delicate son of a poor piano-maker.
Watts won a first prize in the competition, which was intended to promote narrative paintings on patriotic subjects, appropriate to the nation's legislature.
www.malibumountaingallery.com /wiki/index.php/George_Frederic_Watts   (935 words)

  
 ArtNotes: George Frederic Watts
A portrait painter and sculptor, George Frederick Watts was born in London, the son of a piano maker.
Watts was a modest, hard-working artist who twice refused a baronetcy and other honours, including an offer to become president of the Royal Academy, although he did accept the Order of Merit.
Watts' declared aims were clear: to paint pictures that appealed 'to the intellect and refined emotions rather than the senses': "I paint ideas, not things.
www.ready-to-hang.com /LCP_ArtNotes/George_F_Watts_Bio.htm   (709 words)

  
 Watts Paintings Reproduction and Biography
Watts was born in Marylebone London, the delicate son of a poor piano -maker.
Watts showed promise very early, learning sculpture from the age of 10 with William Behnes and enroling as a student at the Royal Academy at the age of 18.
Watts came to the public eye with a drawing entitled Caractacus, which was entered for a competition to design murals for the new Houses of Parliament at Westminster in 1843.
www.allartclassic.com /author_biography.php?p_number=141   (835 words)

  
 Biography for: George Frederick Watts
Watts had been depressed when he moved in, but the Prinsep home provided him with a secure environment in which he gained confidence and he painted many portraits of the visiting eminent Victorians.
This side of Watt's work was not revealed to the public until the first Grosvenor Gallery exhibition of 1877, at which he exhibited the large version of G. Watts, Love and Death (z.243) (z243).
Watts' praise of At the Piano (YMSM 24), encouraged Luke Ionides' father to commission Portrait of Luke A. Ionides (YMSM 32).
www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk /biog/Watt_GF.htm   (450 words)

  
 George Frederick Watts's biography - The Dark Chamber
George Watts was one of the most important painters and sculptors of the 19th century.
George Frederick Watts was born in London, UK, in 1817, son of a piano-maker.
George Watts was very popular and respected in his days, having refused several titles and honors and accepted only the Order of Merit in 1902.
www.angelfire.com /moon/darkchamber/visuarts/watts.htm   (472 words)

  
 George Frederick Watts RA (1817-1904)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
George Frederick Watts was a very important Victorian artist, whose work appeals in a similar way to that of the Classicists such as Leighton and Albert Moore, or that of some of the Pre-Raphaelites.
Watts in fact knew most of the Pre-Raphaelites, and was an important influence on the younger ones.
Portraits by Watts may be seen in the V & A and the National Portrait Gallery.
myweb.tiscali.co.uk /speel/paint/watts.htm   (397 words)

  
 George Frederic Watts - Hope
GEORGE FREDERICK WATTS was born in London in 1817.
Watts was a prolific artist and produced much more than most of his contemporaries.
Watts frequently tried to symbolize a human emotion or feeling by the use of a figure arbitrarily posed and clothed—one which did not necessarily follow the formula or iconography of traditional Western painting.
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 George Frederick Watts biography - Oil painting Art reproductions - Art Sender
Watts was serious-minded, lacked a sense of humour, and was politically a radical-on two occasions he refused a baronetcy.
She was thirty six years his junior, and devoted the rest of her life to the care of her genius, materially during his lifetime, and his reputation after his death.
George Frederic Watts is buried close to the chapel.
www.artsender.com /artists/Watts_George_Frederick.htm   (507 words)

  
 Watts George Frederick - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Watts George Frederick - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
Watts, George Frederick (1817-1904), English painter and sculptor, who painted about 300 portraits, including those of the Italian patriot Giuseppe...
The Pre-Raphaelites despised the art of the High Renaissance, but other artists, most notably George Frederick Watts and Alfred Stevens, consciously...
au.encarta.msn.com /Watts_George_Frederick.html   (94 words)

  
 Sculpture by George Frederick Watts RA (1817-1904)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Watts produced a few sculptures, helped somewhat with the technical aspects of casting by the sculptor J.
Perhaps one reason for the small number of works is that Watts had an allergy to plaster.
is typical Watts - the classical nymph who turned into a flower is modelled as a head and shoulders, her neck exposed as her face turns to follow the sun.
myweb.tiscali.co.uk /speel/sculpt/watts3.htm   (225 words)

  
 Phryne - George Frederick Watts at The Watts Gallery
Watts' host at Little Holland House for thirty years, and father of the artist Val Prinsep.
Over-the-shoulder portrait of Watts' second wife, who took charge of him in his old age while becoming an arts-and-crafts practitioner in her own right.
Watts' rendering of the lovers' tryst is a classic of symbolist fuzziness.
www.phryne.com /works/19-86-26.HTM   (575 words)

  
 George Frederick - Search Results - MSN Encarta
George Frederick, racehorse, winner of the 1874 Epsom Derby.
Owned and bred by Mr W. Cartwright, George Frederick made his debut as a...
Root, George Frederick (1820-1895), American composer, music publisher, and teacher, born in Sheffield, Massachusetts.
uk.encarta.msn.com /George_Frederick.html   (97 words)

  
 George Frederick Watts
We cannot imagine Watts attempting such a mosaic as Raphael's in the Chigi chapel, where the subject is "God Creating the Stars", a picture full of artifice, and in which the grotesquerie of the theme wholly over-powers the grace of the angel-boys.
And it shows, more than his works do, that Watts was in a really profound sense, a religious artist; although not in the way in which the chief Italians of the Middle Age, from Cima-bue to Raphael, were.
Watts was a distinguished portrait-painter for more than fifty years; and most of his contemporaries of eminence sat to him on his own invitation.
www.oldandsold.com /articles36/artist-lectures-8.shtml   (6190 words)

  
 George Frederick Watts
And so he did more than any other nineteenth-century teacher to refute the maxim that Art has nothing to do with Morality, or that the Beautiful and the Good are disparate; because he proved the opposite by his own practice.
Watts was a distinguished portrait-painter for more than fifty years ; and most of his contemporaries of eminence sat to him on his own invitation.
It is doubtful if any portrait-painter the wide world over ever did this in the same way, and certainly no one has done it for a similar reason, viz., that he might gift their likenesses to the nation.
www.oldandsold.com /articles28/lectures-art-8.shtml   (4966 words)

  
 Art History at Loggia | Artist George Frederick Watts at a Glance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Artist George Frederick Watts is a compelling figure from the Nineteenth century.
George Frederick Watts was born in London, England, in 1817.
It is worth noting that the long and fruitful friendship between Watts and Leighton resulted in many shared artistic interests, including a passion for classical subjects.
www.loggia.com /art/artists/watts.html   (401 words)

  
 George Frederick Watts RA (1817-1904): An Overview
Statue labelled G. Watts on the façade of the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Painting the Invisible: the Landscapes of George Frederic Watts
Watts: Portraits of Fame and Beauty in Victorian Society.
www.victorianweb.org /painting/watts   (245 words)

  
 GEORGE FREDERICK WATTS... - Online Information article about GEORGE FREDERICK WATTS...
Paris, where he was then ambassador, and through him made the acquaintance and painted the portraits of See also:
RIPON, GEORGE FREDERICK SAMUEL ROBINSON, 1ST MARQUESS OF (1827-1909)
Watts is before all things a painter with a grave and See also:
encyclopedia.jrank.org /WAT_WIL/WATTS_GEORGE_FREDERICK_1817_190.html   (4046 words)

  
 Michael Strang - Exhibition at George Frederick Watts Gallery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
n 1996 an exhibition of Michael Strang work was held in the George Frederick Watts Gallery to help raise funds for their Memorial Chapel roof.
This gallery normally only shows the works of the Victorian artist George Frederick Watts and Michael was the first painter of this century to exhibit there.
The paintings below were done by Michael in appreciation of the pleasant hours he has enjoyed at the gallery.
www.michaelstrang.com /watts.htm   (88 words)

  
 HOPE - George Frederick Watts (1817-1904) PENCIL SIGNED   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The subject is simply 'HOPE' and the more you look at the picture and learn about it (see some links I included below), the more you will appreciate the artist and the intensity of thought and emotion that went into the painting.
Like Michael Angelo (who inspired much of Watts work) each time your mood changes and you look at it from a new emotional level, it gives your soul a whole new perspective.
Appears to be original wooden frame for this piece (or at the very least a frame from that time period was selected when mounted).
www.writerscritique.com /items/7418207718.html   (707 words)

  
 George Frederic Watts Online
George Frederic Watts at the National Gallery, London, UK Panoramic Landscape with a Farmhouse, ca.1845
George Frederic Watts in the Art Renewal Center
All images and text on this George Frederic Watts page are copyright 1999-2007 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/watts_george_frederic.html   (377 words)

  
 Books by George Frederick Watts, compare prices
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Watts, the Hall of Fame : Portraits of His Famous Contemporaries
Watts, a Nineteenth Century Phenomenon : [catalogue of an Exhibition At] the Whitechapel Art Gallery...
www.allbookstores.com /author/George_Frederick_Watts.html   (146 words)

  
 Watts Reproductions - Orlando Pursuing the Fata Morgana
Watts Reproductions - Orlando Pursuing the Fata Morgana
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 Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on watts, george frederick
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 The Peacock Mirror: Discovering the Sculptures of George Frederick Watts O.M., R.A   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
When Elizabeth Hutchings visited the Watts Gallery in 1992 the models of Alfred, Lord Tennyson and a huge horse fired her curiosity.
To find out more about the sculptor she set off on a pilgrimage.
Here is a personal record of her travels in search of Watts and his works, written with affection and enthusiasm, full of anecdotes and photographs.
www.peacockmirror.com /item/1001163   (222 words)

  
 Web Directory » Web Directory » Arts » Art History » Artists » W » Watts, George Frederick   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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George Frederic Watts - Reproductions of some of his paintings from the ArtMagick Pre-Raphaelite site.
The content on this page is based on the Open Directory Project and has been modified by this website.
www.dcpages.com /DC_ODP/?c=Arts/Art_History/Artists/W/Watts,_George_Frederick   (122 words)

  
 Physical Energy by George Frederick Watts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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Physical Energy by George Frederick Watts, R.A., 1817-1904, Bronze.
This image may be used without prior permission for any scholarly or educational purpose.
www.scholars.nus.edu.sg /victorian/sculpture/watts/2.html   (56 words)

  
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 Choosing by George Frederick Watts Art Posters: PicassoMio.com
Choosing by George Frederick Watts Art Posters: PicassoMio.com
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 George Frederick Watts on artnet
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