Ellen Terry
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Dame Alice Ellen Terry was an English actress of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Charles Kean (left) and Ellen Terry in The Winter's Tale, 1856
Choosing: painting by first husband, George Frederic Watts c. 1864
Terry, c. 1880
Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth, by John Singer Sargent, 1889
George Frederic Watts
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George Frederic Watts was a British painter and sculptor associated with the Symbolist movement. Watts became famous in his lifetime for his allegorical works, such as Hope and Love and Life. These pa
Ellen Terry
…as a child, acting in Shakespeare plays in London, and toured throughout the British provinces in her teens. At 16, she married the 46-year-old artist George Frederic Watts, but they separated within a year. She soon returned to the stage but began a relationship with the architect Edward William Godwin and retired from…
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Hope, painted in 1886 and given to the nation in 1897
George Frederic Watts, 1898, platinum print by Frederick Hollyer, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, DC
The Sower of the Systems