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| George Frederic Watts Orpheus and Eurydice 1869 oil on canvas Aberdeen Art Gallery, Scotland |
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| George Frederic Watts Orpheus and Eurydice 1869 oil on canvas Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
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| George Frederic Watts Europa ca. 1870-94 oil on canvas Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
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| George Frederic Watts The Court of Death 1881 oil on canvas Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
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| George Frederic Watts Ariadne on Naxos ca. 1880-85 oil on canvas Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
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| George Frederic Watts The Window Seat 1861 oil on canvas Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| George Frederic Watts Portrait of Jane Elizabeth Hughes 1857-58 oil on canvas National Trust, Wightwick Manor, Wolverhampton |
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| George Frederic Watts Portrait of Ellen Terry ca. 1864-65 oil on canvas National Portrait Gallery, London |
"George Frederic Watts, who was interested in the Elgin marbles from an early age, first worked in the studio of the sculptor William Behnes. He then turned to portraits, and later to history painting. Watts first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1837, and travelled to Italy during the mid-1840s. He was elected a full member of the Royal Academy in 1867, and began to enjoy increasing success. In 1881-82 there was a retrospective of his work at the Grosvenor Gallery, London, the first such exhibition devoted to the oeuvre of a living artist. His renown in the nineteenth century may be measured by the fact that he was also the first living artist to stage a solo exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. It received one million visitors during its year-long run in 1884-85."
– from curator's notes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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| George Frederic Watts Love and Death ca. 1893-1900 oil on canvas Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
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| George Frederic Watts Love and Life 1904 oil on canvas Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
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| George Frederic Watts The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse The Rider on the Black Horse ca. 1878 oil on canvas Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
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| George Frederic Watts The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse The Rider on the Pale Horse ca. 1878 oil on canvas Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
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| George Frederic Watts The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse The Rider on the Red Horse ca. 1882 oil on canvas Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
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| George Frederic Watts The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse The Rider on the White Horse ca. 1874-83 oil on canvas Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
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| George Frederic Watts Study for When Poverty Comes In at the Door, Love Flies Out the Window ca. 1879 oil on canvas Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle, Cumbria |