Hope is a Symbolist oil painting by the English painter George Frederic Watts, who completed the first two versions in 1886. Radically different from previous treatments of the subject, it shows a lon
Second version of Hope, 1886
Watts's frontispiece for Felix on the Bat, Nicholas Felix (Nicholas Wanostrocht), 1845
Georgiana Maria Leicester as Hope, Thomas Lawrence, c. 1811
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
Hope (Watts)
…Hope is a Symbolist oil painting by the English painter George Frederic Watts, who completed the first two versions in 1886. Radically different from previous treatments of the subject, it shows a lone blindfolded female figure…
George Frederic Watts, 1898, platinum print by Frederick Hollyer, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, DC