George Frederic Watts, O.M., R.A. (1817-1904)

Sir Galahad
Catalogue notes

"This is a version of a well-known composition by Watts. Dating originally from the early 1860s or even the late 1850s, the concept shows him in a quasi-Pre-Raphaelite mode which reflects his association with Rossetti and Burne-Jones at Little Holland House, where he was Mrs Prinsep's genius-in-residence and they frequented her salon. There is also a general relationship with the poem 'Sir Galahad' by Tennyson, who was one of Mrs Prinsep's principal 'lions' and tremendously admired by Watts, who painted his portrait many times. The sitter for the head of Sir Galahad was Arthur Prinsep, Sara and Thoby Prinsep's youngest son, and Mary Watts, the artist's widow, observed that the way he uses the horse symbolically, to reinforce the sense of worship, reflects his love of horses and riding." - catalogue notes

Una and the Red Cross Knight

ArtMagick

A Polar Bears Tale

Watts Gallery Restoration

Restoration Information

Watts Restoration Photographs

The Hope Appeal

GF Watts Gallery

http://www.wattsgallery.org.uk/coll_overview.html

The Watts Gallery is currently closed while the buildings are being restored. The first photograph is from their website (see the link above).

This photograph and the ones below were taken in *March 2007* and are shared courtesy 'Jon's pics' - Flickr.




More photographs from:
'kotomigd' - Watts Gallery and Watts Cemetery Chapel
Martin Beek - G F Watts (not all of these pictures are from the Watts Gallery)

G F Watts Gallery - The Rob Dickins Collection

"Watts Gallery has acquired an extraordinary collection of over 4,000 historic photographs from one of its trustees, Professor Rob Dickins, CBE. Consisting of images acquired from the collection of the late Jeremy Maas and Dickins’s own acquisitions gives a unique picture of the world that G. F. Watts inhabited and the figures with which he rubbed shoulders."
"The Rob Dickins Collection is presently being housed at the Witt Library at the Courtauld Institute in London where it can be seen by appointment. ... The full collection is now available to view online as part of the Gallery's collection database."

http://www.wattsgallery.org.uk/coll_robdickins.html

GF Watts in his studio

Ellen Terry

The Misses Dene

Ruskin and Rossetti

Burne Jones and his grandchildren

Photos © GF Watts Gallery

Some of the photos are from the 2008 Culture24 information about the exhibition, Victorian Artists in Photographs – The World of GF Watts.