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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.
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.
MAMA Gallery; Marciano Art Foundation; Martial Arts History Museum; Materials & Applications; The Merry Karnowsky Gallery; Millard Sheets Center for the Arts; Riko Mizuno; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Morán Morán; Museum of Jurassic Technology
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]
This list of museums in Los Angeles is a list of museums located within the City of Los Angeles, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
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.
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Hope Second version of Hope, 1886 Artist George Frederic Watts Year 1886 (1886), further versions 1886–1895 Type Oil Dimensions 142.2 cm × 111.8 cm (56.0 in × 44.0 in) Location Tate Britain Hope is a Symbolist oil painting by the English painter George Frederic Watts, who completed the first two versions in 1886. Radically different from previous treatments of the subject, it shows a lone ...