George Frederic Watts was an English painter of the Victorian era. He attempted to create paintings that "speak to the imagination and to the heart and arouse all that is best and noblest in humanity" - a very different credo to the modernist idea that the purpose of art is to shock the public.
One of his most popular paintings was Sir Galahad (1862):
This one is titled Choosing:
This one Prayer:
This is a portrait of Jane Senior:
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
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