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Lot 48

George Frederic Watts, OM, RA
(British, 1817-1904)
Hero

31 March 2021, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £40,250 inc. premium

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George Frederic Watts, OM, RA (British, 1817-1904)

Hero
oil on panel
21 x 27cm (8 1/4 x 10 5/8in).

Footnotes

Provenance
Fine Art Society, London, June 1974, no. 5661.
Property of a Gentleman collector.

Exhibited
Compton, Watts Gallery, The Vision of G. F. Watts, OM, RA (1817-1904), 2 July - 31 October 2004, no. 24.

Literature
Veronica Franklin Gould (ed), The Vision of G.F.Watts OM RA (1817-1904), exhibition catalogue, Salisbury, 2004, p. 55, illustrated.

Writing the catalogue to accompany the Watts exhibition of 2004, the compilers note that the present lot was most likely painted around 1883-4, using drawings made in the late 1860s. The model for Hero is Madeline Wyndham, who Watts also depicted in a full length portrait (Grosvenor Gallery, 1877. no. 22).

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