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His former house at Compton, near Guildford, Surrey, is now the Watts Gallery, devoted to his work. Only 16 at the time of the wedding in 1864, she was 30 years his junior and they separated the following year. 1879 Personlig information Født George Frederic Watts 23. Watts was twice married, his first wife being the celebrated actress Ellen Terry, of whom he painted several portraits, notably ‘Choosing’ (c.1864, NPG). A cast of it forms the central feature of the Cecil Rhodes Memorial, Cape Town, and another is in Kensington Gardens, London. As a sculptor, he is remembered chiefly for his equestrian piece Physical Energy (1904). George Frederic Watts (1817-1904) was an English Victorian sculptor and painter, largely known for his contribution and influence on the Symbolist movement. Mill, etc., NPG, London) have generally worn better.

Watts became famous in his lifetime for his allegorical works, such as Hope and Love and Life. (33.2 x 53.3 cm.) Provenance Bought from the artist by the Hon. George Frederic Watts, (London 23 February 1817 1 July 1904) was an English Victorian painter and sculptor associated with the Symbolist movement. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1837 onwards and in 1843 won a. (1817-1904) Orpheus and Eurydice oil on canvas 13¼ x 21 in. His portraits of great contemporaries (Gladstone, Tennyson, J. Watts was able to support himself as an artist from the age of 16. He wanted to invest his work with moral purpose and his most characteristic paintings are abstruse allegories that were once enormously popular but now can seem vague and ponderous (Hope, 1886, Tate, London, and other versions). His style was early influenced by Etty, but the Elgin Marbles, Michelangelo, and the great Venetian painters (notably Titian) were his avowed exemplars in his aim ‘to affect the mind seriously by nobility of line and colour’.