G.F. Watts : the last great Victorian / Veronica Franklin Gould

Gould, Veronica Franklin

ISBN 10: 0300105770 / ISBN 13: 9780300105773

Published by New Haven : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, 2004

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Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 458 pp.: illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm. Contents; Ambitious Young Philhellene -- Florence Chapter -- A Caged Eagle -- Crusade Against Bare Walls -- Breezy Bohemia -- Choosing -- Unbridled Passion -- Royal Academician -- 'Calling off these Studios' -- Sweet Briary -- New Little Holland House -- Polemicist -- Genius Exposed -- Revelations -- New York Sensation -- Hope -- Apex of Art -- 'The Utmost for the Highest' -- Limnerslease -- Sic Transit -- Dual Forces -- Handover to the Nation -- The Colossus Sits -- 'Our Race as Pioneers' -- 'How fast the days go!'. Subjects; Watts, George Frederick 1817-1904. Painters England ; Biography. Symbolism (Art movement) England. Sculptors, British 19th century ; Biography. 1 Kg.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: G.F. Watts : the last great Victorian / Veronica Franklin Gould
• Publisher: New Haven : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300105770
• ISBN 13: 9780300105773
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

George Frederic Watts (1817–1904) was a titanic figure in nineteenth-century British art. The father of British Symbolism and portrait painter of his age, he forged a controversial career that spanned the reign of Queen Victoria. This book, the first in-depth biography of Watts, sheds new light on the pioneering spirit and breadth of mind of the artist.
Drawing on Watts’s abundant personal correspondence and diaries and an array of other contemporary documents, the book chronicles the artist’s career and personal life, including his friendships with Edward Burne-Jones, Frederic Leighton, William Gladstone, and Alfred Tennyson and his relationships with a series of singular women. The book also examines Watts’s wide reforming zeal and political agenda as well as his role and dealings in the Victorian art world.

Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

About the Author

Veronica Franklin Gould is curator of the exhibition The Vision of G.F. Watts, to be held at The Watts Gallery, Surrey. She is editing Watts’s letters and writing a biography of his wife, Mary Seton Watts.