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George Frederic Watts, c. 1879 George Frederic Watts was born in 1817, the son of a London musical instrument manufacturer. [2] His two brothers died in 1823, and his mother in 1826, giving Watts an obsession with death that lasted throughout his life. [2]
The Minotaur, oil on canvas, 188.1 cm × 94.5 cm (74.1 in × 37.2 in), Tate Britain. The Minotaur is an 1885 painting by the English painter George Frederic Watts.It depicts the Minotaur from Greek mythology as he waits for his young sacrificial victims to arrive by ship.
Watts was born in Marylebone in central London on the birthday of George Frederic Handel (after whom he was named), to the second wife of a poor piano-maker. Delicate in health and with his mother dying while he was still young, he was home-schooled by his father in a conservative interpretation of Christianity as well as via the classics such as the Iliad.
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Watts Gallery – Artists' Village is an art gallery in the village of Compton, near Guildford in Surrey. It is dedicated to the work of the Victorian-era painter and sculptor George Frederic Watts. The gallery has been Grade II* listed on the National Heritage List for England since June 1975. [1]
George Frederic Watts (1817–1904), English Victorian painter and sculptor; George Washington Watts (1851–1921), American manufacturer, financier and philanthropist; George Watts (cricketer) (1867–1949), English cricketer; George Albert Watts (died 1957), mayor of St Pancras, London; George Edward Watts (1786–1860), Royal Navy officer
Physical Energy was the culmination of Watts's ambition in the field of public sculpture, embodying the artist's belief that access to great art would bring immense benefits to the country at large, Watts conceived Physical Energy as an allegory of human vitality and humanity’s ceaseless struggle for betterment.
Now, with the statewide drought, they are paying more — $40 a month, negotiated down from the $50 proposed by the Los Angeles Community Garden Council, which governs gardens in the city.