See also:GEORGE See also:FREDERICK See also:WATTS (1817-1904)
, See also:English painter and sculptor, was See also:born in See also:London on the 23rd of See also:February 1817
.
While hardly more than a boy he was permitted to enter the See also:schools of the Royal See also:Academy; but his attendance was See also:short-lived, and his further See also:art See also:education was confined to See also:personal experiment and endeavour, guided and corrected by a See also:constant See also:appeal to the See also:standard of See also:ancient See also:Greek See also:sculpture
.
There are portraits of himself, painted in 1834; of Mr See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James Weale, about 1835; of his See also:father, " Little See also:Miss See also:Hopkins," and Mr See also:Richard See also:Jarvis, painted in 1836; and in 1837 he was already far enough advanced to be an exhibitor at the Academy with a picture of " The Wounded See also:Heron " and two portraits
.
His first exhibited figure-subject, " Cavaliers," appeared on the Academy walls in 1839, and was followed in 1840 by " See also:Isabella e Lorenzo," in 1841 by " How should I your true love know
?
" and in 1842 by a See also:scene from Cymbeline and a portrait of Mrs Ionides
.
The Royal See also:Commission appointed for the decoration of the new Houses of See also:Parliament offered prizes in 1842 to those artists whose cartoons for frescoes should be adjudged best adapted to its See also:object, and at the See also:exhibition in See also:Westminster See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall next See also:year See also:Watts secured a See also:prize of £300 for a See also:design of " See also:Caractacus ledin See also:triumph through the streets of See also:Rome." This enabled him to visit See also:Italy in 1844, and he remained there during the greater portion of the three following years, for the most See also:part in See also:Florence, where he enjoyed the patronage and personal friendship of See also:Lord See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland, the See also:British See also:ambassador
.
For him he painted a portrait of See also:Lady Holland, exhibited in 1848, and in his See also:Villa Careggi, near the See also:city, a See also:fresco, after making some experimental studies in that See also:medium, fragments of which are now in the See also:Victoria and See also:Albert Museum
.
To Lord Holland's encouragement, also, it was chiefly due that in 1846 the artist took part in another competition, the third organized by the Royal Commissioners, who on this occasion announced a further See also:list of prizes for See also:works in oil
.
Watts sent in a See also:cartoon depicting " See also:Alfred inciting his subjects to prevent the landing of the Danes, or the first See also:naval victory of the English," which, after obtaining a first-class prize of £500 at the exhibition in Westminster Hall, was See also:purchased by the See also:government, and hangs in one of the See also:committee rooms of the See also:House of See also:Commons
.
It led, moreover, to a commission for the fresco of " St See also:George overcomes the See also:Dragon," which, begun. in 1848 and finished in 1853, forms part of the decorations of the Hall of the Poets in the Houses of Parliament
.
He next proposed to adorn gratuitously the interior of the See also:Great Hall of Euston railway station with a See also:series of frescoes illustrating " The Progress of the Cosmos," but the offer was refused
.
A similar proposition made shortly afterwards to the Benchers of See also:Lincoln's See also:Inn was received in a less commercial spirit, and was followed by the See also:execution of the fresco, " See also:Justice: a See also:Hemicycle of Lawgivers," on the See also:north See also:side of their hall
.
While this large undertaking was still in progress, Watts was working steadily at pictures and portraits
.
In 1849 the first two of the great allegorical compositions which See also:form the most characteristic of the artist's productions were exhibited—" See also:Life's Illusions," an elaborate presentment of the vanity of human desires, and " The See also:people that sat in darkness," turning eagerly towards the growing See also:dawn
.
In 1850 he first gave public expression to his intense longing to improve the See also:condition of humanity in the picture of " The See also:Good Samaritan " bending over the wounded traveller; this, as recorded in the See also:catalogue of the Royal Academy, was " painted as an expression of the artist's admiration and respect for the See also:noble philanthropy of See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Wright, of See also:Manchester," and to that city he presented the See also:work
.
In 1856 Watts paid a visit to Lord Holland at See also:Paris, where he was then ambassador, and through him made the acquaintance and painted the portraits of See also:Thiers, See also:Prince See also:Jerome See also:Bonaparte and other famous Frenchmen; while other celebrities who sat to him during these years were See also:Guizot (1848), See also:Colonel See also:Rawlinson, C.B., See also:Sir See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:- TAYLOR
- TAYLOR, ANN (1782-1866)
- TAYLOR, BAYARD (1825–1878)
- TAYLOR, BROOK (1685–1731)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1787-1865)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1829-1901)
- TAYLOR, JEREMY (1613-1667)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (158o-1653)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (1704-1766)
- TAYLOR, JOSEPH (c. 1586-c. 1653)
- TAYLOR, MICHAEL ANGELO (1757–1834)
- TAYLOR, NATHANIEL WILLIAM (1786-1858)
- TAYLOR, PHILIP MEADOWS (1808–1876)
- TAYLOR, ROWLAND (d. 1555)
- TAYLOR, SIR HENRY (1800-1886)
- TAYLOR, THOMAS (1758-1835)
- TAYLOR, TOM (1817-1880)
- TAYLOR, WILLIAM (1765-1836)
- TAYLOR, ZACHARY (1784-1850)
Taylor and Thomas Wright (1851), Lord See also:John See also:- RUSSELL (FAMILY)
- RUSSELL, ISRAEL COOK (1852- )
- RUSSELL, JOHN (1745-1806)
- RUSSELL, JOHN (d. 1494)
- RUSSELL, JOHN RUSSELL, 1ST EARL (1792-1878)
- RUSSELL, JOHN SCOTT (1808–1882)
- RUSSELL, LORD WILLIAM (1639–1683)
- RUSSELL, SIR WILLIAM HOWARD
- RUSSELL, THOMAS (1762-1788)
- RUSSELL, WILLIAM CLARK (1844– )
Russell (1852), See also:Tennyson (1856, and again in 1859)., John Lothrop See also:Motley the historian (1859), the See also:duke of See also:Argyll (186o), Lord See also:- LAWRENCE
- LAWRENCE (LAURENTIUS, LORENZO), ST
- LAWRENCE, AMOS (1786—1852)
- LAWRENCE, AMOS ADAMS (1814–1886)
- LAWRENCE, GEORGE ALFRED (1827–1876)
- LAWRENCE, JOHN LAIRD MAIR LAWRENCE, 1ST BARON (1811-1879)
- LAWRENCE, SIR HENRY MONTGOMERY (1806–1857)
- LAWRENCE, SIR THOMAS (1769–1830)
- LAWRENCE, STRINGER (1697–1775)
Lawrence and Lord See also:Lyndhurst (1862), Lord See also:Wensleydale (1864), Mr See also:Gladstone (1858 and 1865), Sir See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William Bowman and See also:Swinburne (1865), See also:Panizzi (1866) and See also:Dean See also:Stanley and Dr See also:Joachim in 1867
.
Notable pictures of the same See also:period are " Sir Galahad " (1862), " See also:Ariadne in See also:Naxos " (1863), " See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
Time and Oblivion " (1864), originally designed for sculpture to be carried out " in See also:divers materials after the manner of See also:Pheidias," and " See also:Thetis " (1866)
.
In spite of these and many other evidences of his importance, it was not until 1867 that Watts was elected an See also:Associate of the Royal Academy, but the See also:council then conferred upon him the rare distinction of promoting him, in the course of the same year, to full Academicianship
.
Thenceforward he continued to exhibit each year, with a few exceptions, at the Academy, even after his retirement in 1896, and he was also a frequent contributor to the Grosvenor See also:Gallery, and subsequently to the New Gallery, at which last a See also:special exhibition of his works was held in the See also:winter of 1896-1897
.
Though he travelled abroad to some extent, going to See also:Asia See also:Minor in 1857 with the expedition sent to investigate the ruins of See also:Halicarnassus, and visiting in later years Italy, See also:Greece and See also:Egypt, the greater part of his life was passed in the laborious seclusion of his studio either at Little Holland House, Melbury Road, See also:Kensington, where he settled in 1859, or in the
See also:country at Limnerslease, See also:Compton, See also:Surrey
.
Apart from his art, I would sooner point out the true way to those who seek it than his life was happily uneventful, the See also:sole facts necessary to See also:record
being his See also:marriage in 1886 with Miss See also:Mary See also:Fraser-See also:Tytler, an See also:early See also:union with Miss Ellen See also:Terry having been dissolved many years before; his twice receiving (1885 and 1894), but respectfully declining, the offer of a baronetcy; and his inclusion in See also:June 1902 in the newly founded See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
Order of Merit
.
He died on the 1st
of See also:July 1904
.
The See also:world is exceptionally well provided with opportunities of judging of the qualities of G
.
F
.
Watts's art, for with a noble generosity he presented to his country a representative selection of the best work of his See also:long life
.
A prominent See also:element in it, and ore which must prove of the greatest value to posterity, is the inestimable series of portraits of his distinguished contemporaries, a series no less remarkable for its See also:artistic than for its See also:historical See also:interest
.
A glance through the list of his subjects shows the breadth of his sympathies and his superiority to creed or party
.
Among politicians are the duke of See also:Devonshire (1883), Lords See also:Salisbury (1884), See also:Sherbrooke (1882), See also:- CAMPBELL, ALEXANDER (1788–1866)
- CAMPBELL, BEATRICE STELLA (Mrs PATRICK CAMPBELL) (1865– )
- CAMPBELL, GEORGE (1719–1796)
- CAMPBELL, JOHN
- CAMPBELL, JOHN (1708-1775)
- CAMPBELL, JOHN CAMPBELL, BARON (1779-1861)
- CAMPBELL, JOHN FRANCIS
- CAMPBELL, LEWIS (1830-1908)
- CAMPBELL, REGINALD JOHN (1867— )
- CAMPBELL, THOMAS (1777—1844)
Campbell (1882), See also:Cowper (1877), See also:Ripon (1896), Dufferin (1897) and See also:Shaftesbury (1882), Mr Gerald See also:Balfour (1899) and Mr John See also:Burns (1897); poets—Tennyson, Swinburne (1884), See also:Browning (1875), See also:Matthew See also:Arnold (1881) See also:Rossetti (1865, and subsequent replica) and William See also:Morris (187o) ; artists--himself (1864, 1880, and eleven others), Lord See also:Leighton (1871 and 1881), See also:Calderon (1872), See also:Prinsep (1872), Burne-See also:- JONES
- JONES, ALFRED GILPIN (1824-1906)
- JONES, EBENEZER (182o-186o)
- JONES, ERNEST CHARLES (1819-1869)
- JONES, HENRY (1831-1899)
- JONES, HENRY ARTHUR (1851- )
- JONES, INIGO (1573-1651)
- JONES, JOHN (c. 1800-1882)
- JONES, MICHAEL (d. 1649)
- JONES, OWEN (1741-1814)
- JONES, OWEN (1809-1874)
- JONES, RICHARD (179o-1855)
- JONES, SIR ALFRED LEWIS (1845-1909)
- JONES, SIR WILLIAM (1746-1794)
- JONES, THOMAS RUPERT (1819– )
- JONES, WILLIAM (1726-1800)
Jones (187o), See also:Millais (1871), See also:Walter See also:Crane (1891), and Alfred See also:- GILBERT
- GILBERT (KINGSMILL) ISLANDS
- GILBERT (or GYLBERDE), WILLIAM (1544-1603)
- GILBERT, ALFRED (1854– )
- GILBERT, ANN (1821-1904)
- GILBERT, GROVE KARL (1843– )
- GILBERT, J
- GILBERT, JOHN (1810-1889)
- GILBERT, MARIE DOLORES ELIZA ROSANNA [" LOLA MONTEZ "] (1818-1861)
- GILBERT, NICOLAS JOSEPH LAURENT (1751–1780)
- GILBERT, SIR HUMPHREY (c. 1539-1583)
- GILBERT, SIR JOSEPH HENRY (1817-1901)
- GILBERT, SIR WILLIAM SCHWENK (1836– )
Gilbert (1896); literature is represented by John See also:Stuart See also:- MILL
- MILL (O. Eng. mylen, later myln, or miln, adapted from the late Lat. molina, cf. Fr. moulin, from Lat. mola, a mill, molere, to grind; from the same root, mol, is derived " meal;" the word appears in other Teutonic languages, cf. Du. molen, Ger. muhle)
- MILL, JAMES (1773-1836)
- MILL, JOHN (c. 1645–1707)
- MILL, JOHN STUART (1806-1873)
Mill (exhibited 1874), See also:Carlyle (1869), George See also:Meredith (1893), Max See also:- MULLER, FERDINAND VON, BARON (1825–1896)
- MULLER, FRIEDRICH (1749-1825)
- MULLER, GEORGE (1805-1898)
- MULLER, JOHANNES PETER (18o1-1858)
- MULLER, JOHANNES VON (1752-1809)
- MULLER, JULIUS (18oi-1878)
- MULLER, KARL OTFRIED (1797-1840)
- MULLER, LUCIAN (1836-1898)
- MULLER, WILHELM (1794-1827)
- MULLER, WILLIAM JAMES (1812-1845)
Muller (1895) and Mr See also:Lecky (1878); See also:music, by Sir See also:Charles See also:Halle; while among others who have won fame in diverse paths are Lords See also:Napier (1886) and See also:Roberts (1899), See also:General See also:Baden-See also:Powell (1902), See also:Garibaldi, Sir Richard See also:Burton (1882), See also:Cardinal See also:Manning (1882), Dr See also:Martineau (1874), Sir See also:Andrew See also:Clark (1894), George See also:Pea-See also:body, Mr Passmore See also:- EDWARDS, AMELIA ANN BLANDFORD (1831-1892)
- EDWARDS, BELA BATES (18o2-1852)
- EDWARDS, BRYAN (1743–1800)
- EDWARDS, GEORGE (1693–1773)
- EDWARDS, HENRY THOMAS (1837–1884)
- EDWARDS, JONATHAN (1703—1758)
- EDWARDS, LEWIS (1806–1887 )
- EDWARDS, RICHARD (c. 1523–1566)
- EDWARDS, T
- EDWARDS, THOMAS CHARLES (1837–1900)
Edwards, See also:Claude See also:Montefiore (1894)
.
Even more significant from an artistic point of view is the great collection of symbolical pictures in the See also:Tate Gallery which forms the artist's See also:message to mankind
.
Believing devoutly in the high See also:mission of didactic art, he strove ever to carry out his part of it faithfully
.
To quote his own words: " My intention has not been so much to paint pictures that See also:charm the See also:eye, as to suggest great thoughts that will appeal to the See also:imagination and the See also:heart, and kindle all that is best and noblest in humanity "; and his tenet is that the See also:main object of the painter should be " demanding noble aspirations, condemning in the most trenchant manner prevalent vices, and warning in deep tones against lapses from morals and duties."
There are not wanting critics who radically dissent from this view of the proper functions of art
.
It must be admitted that there is force in their objection when the inner meaning of a picture is found to be exceedingly obscure, if not incomprehensible, without a verbal explanation
.
In the See also:female figure, for instance, bending blindfolded on the globe suspended in space and See also:sounding the sole remaining See also:string upon her See also:lyre, while a single See also:star shines in the See also:blue heavens, it is not obvious to every one that the See also:idea of " See also:Hope " (1885) is suggested
.
There can be few, nevertheless, who will maintain that his aim is not a lofty one; and the strongest See also:evidence of the artist's greatness, to those who accept his See also:doctrine, is the fact that he has not only striven untiringly for his own ideals, but has very often gloriously attained them
.
Moreover, in so doing he has not failed on occasion to impart to his work much of that very charm which is to him a secondary See also:consideration, or to exhibit an assured and accomplished mastery of the technical achievement which is to some the See also:primary object and essential triumph of See also:painting
.
It was, in short, the rare See also:combination of supreme handicraft with a great Imaginative See also:intellect which secured to Watts his undisputed See also:place in the public estimation of his See also:day
.
The grandeur and dignity of his See also:style, the ease and purposefulness of his brushwork, the richness and harmoniousness of his colouring—qualities partly his own, partly derived from his study of See also:Italian masters at an early and impression-able See also:age—are acknowledged even by those to whom his elevated educational intentions are a See also:matter of indifference, if not of See also:absolute disapprobation; while many, to whom his exceptional artistic attainment is a sealed See also:book, have gathered courage or See also:consolation from the See also:grave moral purpose and deep human sympathy of his teaching
.
He expresses his ideas for the most part in terms of beauty, an idealized, classical beauty of form, a glowing, Venetian beauty of See also:colour, though his conviction of the deadly danger of heaped-up riches, which he vindicated in his life as well as in his work, has, in such cases as " The See also:Minotaur " (exhibited in 1896), " See also:Mammon " (1885) and " See also:Jonah " (1895), where the unveiled vileness of See also:Cruelty and Greed is fearlessly depicted, driven him to the presentment of sheer ugliness or brutality
.
Far oftener a vast, all-embracing tenderness inspires his work; it is the sorrow, not the See also:sin, that stirs him
.
When he would rebuke the thoughtless inhumanity which sacrifices its See also:annual hecatombs of See also:innocent birds to fashionable vanity and grasping See also:commerce, it is not upon the See also:blood and cruelty that he dwells, but the pity of it that See also:lie typifies in " See also:Dedication " or " The Shuddering See also:Angel " (1892) weeping over the See also:altar spread with Woman's spoils
.
Yet it is as a teacher that the artist is seen at his highest: headmonish those who have wandered
.
He never wearies of emphasizing the reality of the See also:power of Love, the See also:fallacy underlying the fear of See also:Death
.
To the early masters Death was a See also:bare and ghastly See also:skeleton, above all things to be shunned; to Watts it is a See also:grand, impressive figure, awful indeed but not horrible, irresistible but not ruthless, a bringer of See also:rest and See also:peace, not to be rashly sought but to be welcomed when the inevitable See also:hour shall strike
.
"Sic transit" (1892) conveys most completely, perhaps,Watts's See also:lesson on the theme of death
.
Stretched on a bier and reverently sheeted lies a See also:corpse; strewn neglected on the ground lie the See also:ermine robe of worldly See also:rank, the weapons of the See also:warrior, the See also:lute of the musician, the book of human learning, the See also:palmer's robe of See also:late repentance and the See also:roses of fleeting pleasures; the See also:laurel See also:crown remains as the one thing See also:worth the winning, and the inscription " What I spent I had; what I saved I lost; what I gave I have," points the moral
.
Such is the significance of the still more masterly ` See also:Court of Death" (finally completed 1902 and now in the Tate Gallery)
.
To the same early masters Love was usually a See also:mere distributor of sensual pleasures, a tricksy spirit See also:instinct with malice and bringing more harm than happiness to humanity, though neither was of much moment
.
Watts has not altogether ignored this view, and in " See also:Mischief " (1878) has portrayed See also:Man, love-led, entangled among the thorns of the world; but, in the main, Love to him is the See also:chief See also:guide and helper of mankind along the barren, See also:rock-strewn path of life, through whom alone he can attain the higher levels, and who triumphs in the end over Death itself
.
To these views on the all-importance of love a trilogy of pictures in the Tate Gallery gives full expression
.
In the first, " Love and Life," exhibited in 1885, a replica of an earlier picture in the See also:Metropolitan Museum, New See also:York, and of another version presented by him to the Luxembourg, Paris, Love, a figure in the See also:prime of manhood, leads and supports the slender, clinging girl who symbolizes Life up to the craggy See also:mountain-See also:top, while he partly See also: