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Following the closure of the De Morgan Centre, London, in the summer of 2014, the Watts Gallery and the De Morgan Foundation, a registered charity [8] preserving the work of William De Morgan and Evelyn De Morgan, entered into a collaboration which saw the opening of a long term exhibition in the Richard Jeffries Gallery in the main gallery building. [9]
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 Watts Gallery, Compton [10] One of Compton's most decorated residents by his profession was the artist who was primarily a painter, George Frederic Watts , who lived his later life at a house he called "Limnerslease", [ 11 ] close to which is the early 20th century Watts Gallery , dedicated to his work.
Frederick Horsman Varley Art Gallery, Markham, Ontario, Canada; Vincent van Gogh – Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, and Van Gogh House, Drenthe, Netherlands; Andy Warhol – The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and the Andy Warhol Museum of Modern Art, Medzilaborce, Slovakia; George Frederic Watts – Watts Gallery, Compton, Surrey ...
In 1904 it was transferred to the newly-opened Watts Gallery in Compton, Surrey, shortly before Watts's death later that year. [1] Two years prior to this, Watts had returned to the theme of creation with The Sower of the Systems , which for the first time in one of his works directly depicted God, and which he described as representing "a ...
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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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 ...