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    Watts (1817-1904)
    Watts (1817-1904)
    Watts (1817-1904)
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    Watts (1817-1904)

    By William Loftus Hare

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      Watts (1817-1904) - William Loftus Hare

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      Title: Watts (1817-1904)

      Author: William Loftus Hare

      Release Date: September 17, 2004 [eBook #13477]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WATTS (1817-1904)***

      E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland, Jeannie Howse,

      and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

      WATTS (1817-1904)

      BY W. LOFTUS HARE

      ILLUSTRATED WITH EIGHT

      REPRODUCTIONS IN COLOUR

      MASTERPIECES IN COLOUR

      EDITED BY T. LEMAN HARE

      Others in Preparation.

      The Publishers have to acknowledge the permission of Mrs.

      Watts to reproduce the series of paintings here included.

      PLATE I.—DEATH CROWNING INNOCENCE

      A little child lying in the lap of the winged figure of Death. Death, ever to Watts a silent angel of pity, takes charge of Innocence, placing it beyond the reach of evil. It was first exhibited at the Winter Exhibition of the New Gallery, 1896, and was given to the nation in 1897. It is now at the Tate Gallery.]

      LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

      I. Death crowning Innocence

      At the Tate Gallery

      II. The Minotaur

      At the Tate Gallery

      III. Hope

      At the Tate Gallery

      IV. Thomas Carlyle

      At the South Kensington Museum

      V. Love and Life

      At the Tate Gallery

      VI. Love Triumphant

      At the Tate Gallery

      VII. The Good Samaritan

      At the Manchester Art Gallery

      VIII. Prayer

      At the Manchester Art Gallery

      I

      A BIOGRAPHICAL OUTLINE

      In July of 1904 the eighty-seven mortal years of George Frederick Watts came to an end. He had outlived all the contemporaries and acquaintances of his youth; few, even among the now living, knew him in his middle age; while to those of the present generation, who knew little of the man though much of his work, he appeared as members of the Ionides family, thus inaugurating the series of private and public portraits for which he became so famous. The Watts of our day, however, the teacher first and the painter afterwards, had not yet come on the scene. His first aspiration towards monumental painting began in the year 1843, when in a competition for the decoration of the Houses of Parliament he gained a prize of £300 for his cartoon of Caractacus led Captive through the Streets of Rome. At this time, when history was claiming pictorial art as her servant and expositor, young Watts carried off the prize against the whole of his competitors. This company included the well-known historical painter Haydon, who, from a sense of the impossibility of battling against his financial difficulties, and from the neglect, real or fancied, of the leading politicians, destroyed himself by his own hand.

      The £300 took the successful competitor to Italy, where for four years he remained as a guest of Lord Holland. Glimpses of the Italy he gazed upon and loved are preserved for us in a landscape of the hillside town of Fiesole with blue sky and clouds, another of a castellated villa and mountains near Florence, and

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