1817-1904 English painter and sculptor. He studied at the Royal Academy and in Italy, where he developed an enthusiasm for Renaissance painting and Greek sculpture that greatly influenced his work. He executed several decorative commissions, including his large fresco Justice (Lincoln's Inn, London), modeled after Raphael's School of Athens. Many of his allegorical pictures are in the Tate Gallery, London. The National Portrait Gallery, London, contains a large collection of his portraits of eminent contemporaries. The Metropolitan Museum has his Ariadne in Naxos.  Related Paintings of George Frederick watts,O.M.,R.A. :. | Triumph of Bacchus ga | Impression | Portrait of Emperor Charles V | Autumn | Gimcrack on Newmarket Heath, with a Trainer, a Stable-lad, and a Jockey |
Related Artists:
Samuel J.Reader
1853-1914
Andras Marko
painted Landscape with Charcoal Burners in 1861
Parton, Ernest
American, 1845-1933