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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]
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.
George Frederic Watts (1817–1904), English painter and sculptor; Henrik Weber (1818–1866), Hungarian painter; Stokely Webster (1912–2001), American painter; Jan Baptist Weenix (1621 – c. 1660), Dutch painter; Gerda Wegener (1886–1940), Danish illustrator and painter; Carel Weight (1908–1997), English painter; Susan Weil (born 1930 ...
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.
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.
Courtesy of JJ Watt/Instagram Their first Thanksgiving as a family of three! Arizona Cardinals defensive end JJ Watt shared a photo of his 1-month-old baby with Chicago Red Stars player Kealia ...
The creative rebirth in Watts didn’t end in 1972, but its energy moved to Leimert Park, where it flourished until about 10 years ago, says Kelley, though the World Stage carries it forward still ...
After the Deluge was exhibited in unfinished form in 1886 as The Sun at St Jude's Church, Whitechapel; [17] [D] Samuel Barnett, vicar of St Jude's, organised annual art exhibitions in east London in an effort to bring beauty into the lives of the poor; [24] he had a close relationship with Watts, and regularly borrowed his works to display them ...