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
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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
Ellen Terry
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Dame Alice Ellen Terry was an English actress of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
George Frederic Watts
…shows the influence of Rossetti, often emphasising sensuous pleasure and rich colour. Among these paintings is a portrait of his young wife, the actress Ellen Terry, who was 30 years his junior – having been introduced by mutual friend Tom Taylor, they married on 20 February 1864, just seven days short of her 17th…
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