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George Frederic Watts was one of the most successful British artists of the 19th century. Mary Watts was a renowned designer and founder of The Potters’ Arts Guild at Compton.
They married in 1886 and formed a strong artistic partnership. In 1904 they opened Watts Gallery.
As the former studio home of George and Mary Watts, Watts Gallery - Artists' Village set up the Artist's Studio Museum Network to bring these stories to a wider public, and to bring single-artist museums, house museums and studio museums across Europe closer together in partnership.
Discover pottery and paintings from the De Morgan Collection at Watts Gallery – Artists’ Village in the exhibition 'Decoration or Devotion?'. Learn more about artists Evelyn and William De Morgan.
Watts Gallery’s collection of over 7,000 paintings, sculptures, drawings, ceramics, prints and photographs is available to search online. This includes key works by both G F and Mary Watts alongside the work of their contemporaries. In addition, you can browse items from the Compton Potters’ Arts Guild and The Rob Dickins Collection of over 3,500 photographs of artists and leading personalities of the 19th century.
Within this resource we have published new research, undertaken over the past five years, into 160 works by G F Watts. This research has been split equally across four themes: Portraiture, Historical and Biblical, Mythology and Symbolism. Research was undertaken by five Early-Career Research Fellows: Dr Stacey Clapperton, Dr Nichole Cochrane, Dr Melissa Gustin, Dr Eva-Charlotta Mebius, and Dr Ryan Nutting.
Find out more about Physical Energy, the monumental sculpture by George Frederic Watts with a complex past. In preparation for the installation of a fourth cast of this sculpture, we have been working in consultation with all our communities to re-examine the ways in which the sculpture's multiple histories can be explored and interpreted today.
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