G. F. Watts : Victorian Visionary - Highlights from the Watts Gallery Collection
by Mark Bills and Barbara BryantFormat: Trade Book
Pub. Date: 2009-01-20
Publisher(s): Yale University Press
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Summary
Widely regarded as a genius and as the greatest painter of the Victorian age, George Frederic Watts (18171904) was a ceaseless experimenter throughout his seventy-year career. He was not only the finest and most penetrating portraitist of his age but also a sculptor, landscape painter, and symbolist. This beautifully illustrated book encompasses the work of his entire career, from his early self-portrait in 1834 and first exhibited painting in the Royal Academy in 1837 to his most iconic work,Hope, and the remarkable, almost abstract painting,Sower of the Systems, completed in 1903. In addition, the book includes historic photographs and archival materials, especially concerning the establishment in 1904 of the Watts Picture Gallery in Compton, Surrey, for the permanent exhibition of his art. Essays by leading scholars examine the artist's output, life, reception, and legacy.
Author Biography
Mark Bills is curator, Watts Gallery, and formerly senior curator of paintings, prints, and drawings, the Museum of London. He is coeditor of William Powell Frith, Painting the Victorian Age (Yale). Barbara Bryant is an art historian, writer, and consultant specializing in the work of G. F. Watts. She wrote the exhibition catalogue G. F. Watts Portraits: Fame & Beauty in Victorian Society (2004).
Table of Contents
| Foreword | |
| Introduction | |
| Watts Gallery: A Temple of Art in Rural England | p. 1 |
| Invention and Reinvention: The Art and Life of G.E Watts | p. 19 |
| The Possibility of Watts: Religion and Spirituality in Victorian England | p. 51 |
| Watts and Sculpture | p. 59 |
| Catalogue | |
| Note on the Catalogue Entries | p. 77 |
| Early Life and Career (cats 1-6) | p. 79 |
| Travel and Italy 1843-7 (cats 7-11) | p. 95 |
| Return to London and the Late 1840s (cats 12-16) | p. 107 |
| The 1850s: Little Holland House, Travel, Murals (cats 17-25) | p. 123 |
| The 1860s (cats 26-40) | p. 141 |
| The 1870s (cats 41-56) | p. 179 |
| The 1880s (cats 57-72) | p. 215 |
| The Grand Old Man at Compton (cats 73-84) | p. 257 |
| Sculpture (cats 85-89) | p. 285 |
| Watts Gallery Archive (cats 90-106) | p. 297 |
| Bibliography | p. 304 |
| Index | p. 307 |
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