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TOWARDS the end of the 19th century, no artist in Britain had a higher profile than G. F. Watts at the height of his popularity. He was the recipient of two retrospectives in his lifetime, and from its opening in 1897 until 1938, the National Gallery of British Art (now Tate Britain) had a permanent room dedicated to

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