The Art of G.F. Watts

by Nicholas Tromans

Overview

. By this time, Watts had acquired a country home in Surrey – Limnerslease – around which he and his second wife, the designer Mary Watts, built a type of utopian settlement, which has recently been restored and opened to the public as Watts Gallery – Artists’ Village. By the end of his life Watts was a national figure, an inspirational artist who had found a meaningful role for art as a catalyst for social change and community integration.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781911300076
Publisher:	Paul Holberton Publishing
Publication date:	01/05/2017
Pages:	112
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.44(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Nicholas Tromans is curator at Watts Gallery. He has published widely on nineteenth-century British art, including the acclaimed Richard Dadd: The Artist and the Asylum.

Editorial Reviews

"An informative overview … demonstrate the ubiquitous nature of these wares in their own time."

Spring 2018 Renaissance Quarterly

"Unclassifiable as an artist … Watts could be one of the best of Victorian portrait painters."

The Spectator

"This lively introduction to the charismatic artist places him back at the centre of the visual culture of 19th-century Britain."

Artists & Illustrators

"This currently somewhat neglected Eminent Victorian is well worth a second, or even a third, look … [a] compact biography."

Artlyst

"Tromans … offers a frank, fair and ultimately endearing overview of Watts’ curious career and the complexities of his personality whilst conjuring a lively picture of the cultural, social and political climate."

Summer 2017 Art Quarterly

"The book succeeds in utterly puzzling the reader as to why we fell out of love with Watts, displaying countless examples of how Watts’s unique and challenging style found favour in generations after his death ... an enjoyable and satisfying companion that won’t break your bank or your bookshelf."

aUTUMN 2017 The Pre-Raphaelite Society Review