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
Mary Fraser Tytler
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Mary Seton Fraser Tytler was a British symbolist craftswoman, designer and social reformer.
George Frederic Watts
…Gallery was opened by his friend Coutts Lindsay. This was to prove his ideal venue for the next ten years. In 1886, at the age of 69, Watts remarried, to Mary Fraser Tytler, a Scottish designer and potter, then aged 36. In 1891 he bought land near Compton, south of Guildford, in Surrey. The couple named the house "Limnerslease…
Mary Fraser Tytler painted by G. F. Watts
The grave of Mary Watts at the Watts Cemetery Chapel in 2026
Watts Mortuary Chapel
Chapel, showing in foreground terracotta grave marker made in the Compton pottery