George Frederic Watts

English painter and sculptor

1817 CE to 1904 CE

George Frederic Watts, OM (23 February 1817 – 1 July 1904) is a popular English Victorian painter and sculptor associated with the Symbolist movement.

Watts becomes famous in his lifetime for his allegorical works, such as Hope and Love and Life.

These paintings are intended to form part of an epic symbolic cycle called the "House of Life", in which the emotions and aspirations of life would all be represented in a universal symbolic language.

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