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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]
English: Self-portrait pencil drawing of Violet, Duchess of Rutland,1891. Gifted by the artist's grandson, John Julius Norwich to the Watts Gallery, Compton in 2016. Gifted by the artist's grandson, John Julius Norwich to the Watts Gallery, Compton in 2016.
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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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 ...
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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 ...