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Painting, sculpture and monumental ambition intersect in the career of George Frederic Watts (1817–1904). Trained in sculpture by William Behnes, he entered the Royal Academy in 1835 and began exhibiting there in 1837. A prize in the Westminster competition financed his departure for Italy in 1843. Back in Britain, he created works including the fresco Justice, A Hemicycle of Lawgivers at Lincoln’s Inn, completed in 1859. His portraits stood alongside symbolic compositions, several of which he donated to the Tate. With Mary Fraser Tytler, whom he married in 1886, he settled near Compton in Surrey. A gallery devoted to his work opened there in April 1904, shortly before his death.
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Piguet
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Watercolour
Etude pour le triomphe de l'Amour,
aquarelle
Catalogue period : 2020-12-09
Published result : 2000 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 2000–3000
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