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. :. | Moses Rescued from the Waters | A Boulevard in Paris | sittande manlig modell | Konigin Maria Anna von Spanien in hellrotem Kleid | The Model for the Folies Bergere Bar |
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