WATTS, GEORGE FREDERIC

1817–1904, English painter and sculptor. He studied at the Royal Academy and in Italy, where he developed an enthusiasm for Renaissance painting and Greek sculpture that greatly influenced his work. He executed several decorative commissions, including his large fresco Justice (Lincoln's Inn, London), modeled after Raphael's School of Athens. Many of his allegorical pictures are in the Tate Gallery, London. The National Portrait Gallery, London, contains a large collection of his portraits of eminent contemporaries. The Metropolitan Museum has his Ariadne in Naxos. He was married to Ellen Terry and later to Mary Fraser-Tytler, who wrote a biography of him (3 vol., 1912). His home at Compton is now the Watts Gallery.

See also studies by C. T. Bateman (1901) and G. K. Chesterton (1904).

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The Young George Du Maurier: A Selection of His Letters, 1860-67
Book by Daphne Du Maurier, George Du Maurier; Doubleday, 1952
Subjects: Du Maurier, George--1834-1896
...95 , 99 , 103 , 106 , 110 , 139 , 170 , 174 , 176 , 204 , 213 , 227 , 228 , 235 , 242 , 243 , 247 , 249 , 284 WATTS, George Frederic 99 , 112 , 119 , 158 , 187 , 196 , 227 , 228 , 289 WHISTLER, James Abbott McNeill 4 , 6 , 7 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12...
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Story of the Pall Mall Gazette, of Its First Editor Frederick Greenwood and of Its Founder George Murray Smith: Of Its First Editor Frederick Greenwood and of Its Founder George Murray Smith
Book by Frederick Greenwood, John William Robertson Scott; Oxford University Press, 1950
Subjects: Greenwood, Frederick--1830-1909, Pall Mall gazette, London, Smith, George Murray--1824-1901
...at a certain church. Mr. Watts in the National Portrait Gallery...Meredith and Mr. Huxley, and Sir George Grove, and Reade and Winwood...Laurence Oliphant, and Sir George Chesney, and Sir Frederick...powerful young publicist, Mr. Frederic Harrison, in full evening...
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The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge - Vol. 10
Book by Samuel Macauley Jackson, George William Gilmore, Clarence Augustine Beckwith, Henry King Carroll, James Francis Driscoll, James Frederic McCurdy, Henry Sylvester Nash, Albert Henry Newman, Frank Horace Vizetelly; Funk and Wagnalls, 1911
Subjects: Theology--Encyclopedias
was George Jacob Holyoake b. in Birmingham Apr. 13, 1817; d. at Brighton Jan...Christianity and Secularism. A written Debate between Rev. G. Sexton and C. Watts , ib. 1882; J. Foxley, Secularism , ib. 1882; R. G. Ingersoll, Secular...
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Victorian Olympus
Book by William Gaunt; Oxford University Press, 1952
Subjects: Leighton Of Stretton, Frederic Leighton--Baron--1830-1896, Painting--England--History
...Frederick, A.R.A. 1840-75 , 129 Wappers, Baron Gustav, 69 Waterhouse, Alfred, R.A. 1830-1905 , 121 , 137 Watts, George Frederick, R.A. 1817- 1904 , 83 , 99 , 100 , 112 , 124 , 174 , 191 West, Benjamin, P.R.A. 1738-1820...
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Journalism in the United States, from 1690-1872
Book by Frederic Hudson; Harper & Brothers, 1873
Subjects: American Newspapers, Fiction, Journalism, Press--United States
...extreme Southwest. On the 27th of July, 1822, the New Orleans Prices Current was issued in that emporium. James G. Watts and George H. Hart announced their intention to issue a Commercial Chronicle in Philadelphia in 1820, but as it did not appear...
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George Eliot and the Fetish of Realism
Journal article by Peter Melville Logan; Studies in the Literary Imagination, Vol. 35, 2002
Subjects: Eliot, George--Appreciation, Eliot, George--Evaluation, Writing
...spirit is consistent with George Eliots highest goals...friend, the Positivist Frederic Harrison: "I have gone...Mill on the Floss. By George Eliot. New York: Routledge...Routledge, 1959. Stocking, George W. Victorian Anthropology...York: Penguin, 1999. Watt, Ian. The Rise of the...
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Shadow Play: The Spiritual in Duke Ellington's "Black and Tan Fantasy"
Journal article by David Metzer; Black Music Research Journal, Vol. 17, 1997
Subjects: African American musicians--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Chopin, Frederic--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Ellington, Duke--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jazz music--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...black appropriations of hymns by Isaac Watts. (12.) Another account of the performance...Fernand Leger to the celebrated score of George Antheil. (24.) Gabbard (1996, 166...grouped in the Cunard Negro collection with George Antheils article "The Negro on the Spiral...
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Regulating Biomedicine in Belgium and France: Neighboring Countries, Diverging Policies
Journal article by Nathalie Schiffino, Frederic Varone; German Policy Studies, Vol. 3, 2006
Subjects: Fertilization in vitro--Research, Reproductive technology--Research, Science and state--Analysis, Science policy--Analysis
...type of functional federations (Watts 1999, Braun 2000). In a functional...Styles in Western Europe, London: George Allen Unwin. Rose R. (1991...University of Mons, Belgium) and Frederic Varone (University of Geneva, Switzerland...
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Behavioral Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Behavior
Journal article by George A. Akerlof; American Economist, Vol. 47, 2003
Subjects: Macroeconomics--Psychological aspects, Macroeconomics--Research, Macroeconomics--Social aspects, Social sciences--Economic aspects, Social sciences--Research
...D. Nordhaus and Harold W. Watts, eds., Money, Macroeconomics...Becker, Gary S. and Stigler, George J. "Law Enforcement, Malfeasance...787. -----; Akerlof, George A.; Dickens, William T...Chicago, May 2001. Mishkin, Frederic S. "Illiquidity, Consumer...
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Popular Images Derived from Tennyson's Arthurian Poems
Journal article by Alan Lupack; Arthuriana, Vol. 21, 2011
Subjects: Arthur, King of Britain, English literature, Folklore, Literary criticism, Poetry, Poets, Tennyson, Alfred (Lord) (1809-92)
...Ruskin, Mill and Other Literary Estimates, Frederic Harrison had praised Tennyson as a poet but...particular favorite was Sir Galahad (1862) by George Frederic Watts (1817-1904). Though Watts denied that he had Tennysons poem Sir Galahad...
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Frederic, Lord Leighton - a Victorian Grandee
Magazine article by Muriel Julius; Contemporary Review, Vol. 268, April 1996
Subjects: Artists, English--Biography, Leighton, Frederick--Biography
...Pre-Raphaelites. That year, George du Maurier, who had met Leighton...His friend and fellow aesthete, George Frederick Watts suggested that the work would be...private clients. Together with George Aitchison, the architect of his...
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One for the History Books
Magazine article by Michael Rust; Insight on the News, Vol. 16, December 4, 2000
Subjects: Bush, George W.--Political activity, Contested elections--2000, Elections--Statistics, Gore, Albert, Jr.--Political activity, Presidential candidates--Political activity
...led the charge against Texas Gov. George W. Bushs seeming victory in Florida...99% Al Gore (D) 699,815 42% (*) George W. Bush (R) 944,155 56% Pat Buchanan...100% Al Gore (D) 61,203 28% (*) George W. Bush (R) 131,664 59% Pat Buchanan...
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Lost Paradises: Music and the Aesthetics of Symbolism
Magazine article by Peter Palmer; Musical Times, Vol. 148, Summer 2007
Subjects: Art exhibits, Classical music, Poetry
...of Rossetti, Burne-Jones and Watts: Symbolism in Britain iStio...Burne-Jones, with the name of George Frederic Watts (i 817-1904). Wattss reputation...after his death, his wife quotes Watts as saying: 1To give the sense...
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Round and About: April 2004
Magazine article; History Today, Vol. 54, April 2004
...and About: April 2004. London Watts and Leighton: Portrait of a Friendship...Victorian painter and sculptor George Frederic Watts (1817-1904) begin with the...portrait of his life-long friend Frederic, Lord Leighton, to the staircase...
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Victorians Colored Their Age with Bright Reds and Greens
Magazine article by Stephen Goode; Insight on the News, Vol. 13, March 10, 1997
Subjects: Painting, British--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Painting, Victorian--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...such as Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Frederic Leighton and Albert Moore do not...of these painters, including George Frederic Watts, were deeply at odds with their...deity does not make us happy." Watts Choosing, which he painted in...
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The Michelangelo of Kensington; When He Died, George Frederic Watts Was Celebrated in Verse, but Then Sank into Oblivion. A Centenary Exhibition Does Little to Revive His Reputation
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), July 16, 2004
The Michelangelo of Kensington; When He Died, George Frederic Watts Was Celebrated in Verse, but Then Sank into Oblivion...world was plunged into mourning by the death of George Frederic Watts, at last a victim of pneumonia, who had...
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Obama's Favourite Painting, the 'God Damn America' Preacher. and a US Snub to No10
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), January 24, 2010
Subjects: Artists
...Victorian English artist and sculptor George Frederic Watts, specially displayed in Buckingham...God will have us hear... from Watts painting. Mr Obama changed the...weeks after he formally succeeded George Bush. Hope is the most famous...
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Obama's Favourite Painting, the 'God Damn America' Preacher ... and a US Snub to No 10
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), January 24, 2010
Subjects: Artists
...Victorian English artist and sculptor George Frederic Watts, specially displayed in Buckingham...God will have us hear... from Watts painting. Mr Obama changed the...weeks after he formally succeeded George Bush. Hope is the most famous...
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US Snub for Brown over Picture That Inspired the President
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), January 24, 2010
Subjects: Artists
...British Victorian artist and sculptor George Frederic Watts, specially displayed in Buckingham...God will have us hear... from Watts painting. Mr Obama changed the...weeks after he formally succeeded George Bush. Hope is the most famous...
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Get in the Frame; These Are the Real Stars of the Summer Art Sales. Katrina Burroughs Goes Frame Shopping
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), June 29, 2005
...FRAMES in the style of those used on paintings by George Frederic Watts are much sought-after; an English late 19th century gilded oak and composition "Watts" frame is estimated at pounds sterling400 to pounds...
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Watts, George Frederic
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
WATTS, GEORGE FREDERIC 1817 1904, English painter and sculptor. He studied at the Royal Academy...biography of him (3 vol., 1912). His home at Compton is now the Watts Gallery. See also studies by C. T. Bateman (1901) and G. K. Chesterton...


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