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George Frederic Watts (1817–1904) was a titanic figure in nineteenth-century British art. The father of British Symbolism and portrait painter of his age, he forged a controversial career that spanned the reign of Queen Victoria. This book, the first in-depth biography of Watts, sheds new light on the pioneering spirit and breadth of mind of the artist.Drawing on Watts’s abundant personal correspondence and diaries and an array of other contemporary documents, the book chronicles the artist’s career and personal life, including his friendships with Edward Burne-Jones, Frederic Leighton, William Gladstone, and Alfred Tennyson and his relationships with a series of singular women. The book also examines Watts’s wide reforming zeal and political agenda as well as his role and dealings in the Victorian art world.Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
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Married to the world-famous Victorian artist George Frederic Watts, Mary was a suffragist and designer with a curious artistic interest in Death. As creator of the Watts Mortuary Chapel, she was a pioneer of the Celtic Revival, who elevated the status of craftswomen on both sides of the Atlantic.In this first biography to focus exclusively on Mary's life before marriage, Valiant Seton examines the pivotal role her Fraser Tytler ancestors played in Scotland's literary heritage, her upbringing in a remote highland castle, the flamboyance of her decorative art and her entry into the epicentre of the English artworld. A disastrous love affair in Rome tormented the young artist for years, punctuating her march into the heart of her 'painter of painters.' Valiant Seton is a compelling account of Mary's turbulent life and her emergence from her aristocratic chrysalis into a social reforming craftswoman and life-partner extraordinaire of England's Michelangelo.