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Found Drowned is an oil painting by George Frederic Watts, c. 1850, inspired by Thomas Hood's 1844 poem The Bridge of Sighs. [1]The painting depicts the dead body of a woman washed up beneath the arch of Waterloo Bridge, with her lower body still immersed in the water of the River Thames. [2]
George Frederic Watts OM RA (23 February 1817 – 1 July 1904) was a British painter and sculptor associated with the Symbolist movement. Watts became famous in his lifetime for his allegorical works, such as Hope and Love and Life. These paintings were intended to form part of an epic symbolic cycle called the "House of Life", in which the ...
Pages in category "Paintings by George Frederic Watts" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. ... Found Drowned; H. Hope (Watts) M. Mammon (painting)
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One illustration based on the poem: Found Drowned, George Frederic Watts, c. 1850 "The Bridge of Sighs" is an 1844 poem by Thomas Hood concerning the suicide of a homeless young woman who threw herself from Waterloo Bridge in London.
Designed by T. H. Wren, a student of the school of arts and crafts established by Watts in Compton, Surrey. [18] The plaque is situated on a central column, in the third row between the tablets to Alexander Stewart Brown and Richard Farris. i The last tablet to be added from the list of names proposed by George Frederic Watts before his death [20]
There she met painter George Frederic Watts, and at the age of 36 (he was 69), became his second wife on 20 November 1886 in Epsom, Surrey. [ 7 ] Watts was President of the Godalming and District National Union of Women's Suffrage Society (a local branch of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies ), [ 8 ] and she convened at least one ...
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]