George Frederic Watts: 70+ Pre-Raphaelite & Symbolist Paintings (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

GEORGE FREDERIC WATTS Art Book contains 70+ Reproductions of Sculptures, Religious, Mythical and Portrait Subjects with title,date and interesting facts page below. Book includes Table of Contents, thumbnail gallery and is formatted for all Kindle readers and Tablets (use rotate and/or zoom feature on landscape/horizontal images for optimal viewing).BORN: February 23, 1817 in Marylebone, London.DIED: July 1, 1904, in Compton, Surrey.MOVEMENT: Pre-Raphaelite/SymbolistINTERESTING FACTS:§ Watts was home-schooled by his father. At the age of 18, he enrolled in the Royal Academy.§ Watts won first prize for his drawing in the new Houses of Parliament at Westminster competition in 1843.§ He painted many eminent Victorians, Poets: Tennyson, Browning and Swinburne, Artists: Lord Frederic Leighton, John Everett Millais, Walter Crane and Edward § § § Burne-Jones, to name just a few.§ Watts was a hard working and modest artist who twice refused a baronetcy and an offer to become president of the Royal Academy.NOTABLE WORKS:Hope, Love and Life, Orpheus and Eurydice, Sir Galahad.