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  2. Watts Gallery - Wikipedia

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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]

  3. After the Deluge (painting) - Wikipedia

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    Watts Gallery, Compton, Surrey, England After the Deluge , also known as The Forty-First Day , [ 1 ] is a Symbolist oil painting by English artist George Frederic Watts , first exhibited as The Sun in an incomplete form in 1886, and completed in 1891.

  4. Watts Cemetery Chapel - Wikipedia

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    When Compton Parish Council created a new cemetery, local resident artist Mary Fraser-Tytler, the wife of Victorian era painter and sculptor George Frederic Watts, offered to design and build a new mortuary chapel. The Wattses had recently build a house, "Limnerslease", a few hundred yards away, now part of the Watts Gallery.

  5. Physical Energy (sculpture) - Wikipedia

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    Watts started work on Physical Energy in the early 1880s. The original 3.5 ton gesso grosso model (made of plaster mixed with glue size and hemp or tow) is at the Watts Gallery at Compton near Guildford. He was assisted by George Thompson and Louis Deuchars. The sculpture depicts a nude male figure on a rearing horse, set on a rectangular wedge ...

  6. The All-Pervading - Wikipedia

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    Influenced by the Sibyls of the Sistine Chapel ceiling, it symbolises the spirit Watts saw as governing "the immeasurable expanse". He presented it to the Tate Gallery in 1899 and it is now on loan from Tate Britain to the Watts Gallery in Compton, Guildford. He also produced a variant on it as the altarpiece for the Watts Mortuary Chapel.

  7. Found Drowned - Wikipedia

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    Watts quickly abandoned his dalliance with social realism, and returned to allegorical themes. He never sold his four social realist paintings, which were first exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery in 1881–82 and are now all held by the Watts Gallery in Compton , near Guildford in Surrey.

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  9. Compton, Guildford - Wikipedia

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    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. The gallery is open to visitors.