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Watts Gallery reopened in June 2011 after a major scheme of works, including extension, refurbishment and restoration. Visitors can now experience the Watts collection in the historic galleries displaying the original decorative schemes. Over one-hundred paintings by G. F. Watts are on permanent display at the Gallery.
Watts worked on the painting for a further five years, and the completed version was exhibited for the first time at the New Gallery in 1891. Between 1902 and 1906 the painting was exhibited around the United Kingdom, and it is now in the collection of the Watts Gallery in Compton , Surrey.
That's Not My... is a series of baby and toddler children's books written by Fiona Watt, illustrated by Rachel Wells and published by Usborne Publishing. Every book focuses on a different subject, which have included animals, vehicles and people. The first book in the series was That's Not My Puppy... which was published in 1999. Each two-page ...
Richard Jefferies agreed to sit for Jon Edgar for a portrait using local Compton clay quarried from the foundations of the Brickfields pottery of Mary Wondrausch.The portrait was unveiled at the re-opening of the Watts Gallery in June 2011 and forms part of the Compton Triptych [2] unveiled at The Human Clay exhibition, Lewis Elton Gallery, University of Surrey in November 2011.
The Gilded Cage is an oil painting on canvas by the English painter Evelyn De Morgan, from 1919. [1] It was her final work before her death later in the year. In the painting a woman looks out a window. Her outstretched hand forms a gesture of yearning as she watches a group of dancers and musicians. The principal figure a
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Wilfrid Jasper Walter Blunt (19 July 1901 – 8 January 1987), known simply as Wilfrid Blunt, was an English art teacher, writer, artist and a curator of the Watts Gallery in Compton, Surrey, from 1959 until 1983.
The All-Pervading is an allegorical painting produced between 1887 and 1890 by the English artist George Frederic Watts.Influenced by the Sibyls of the Sistine Chapel ceiling, it symbolises the spirit Watts saw as governing "the immeasurable expanse".