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George Frederick Watts
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thumb|right|I paint ideas, not things.
George Frederic Watts, (sometimes spelled George Frederick Watts) (London 23 February 1817 – 1 July 1904) was a popular English Victorian painter and sculptor associated with the Symbolist movement.
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I paint ideas, not things. My intention is less to paint works that are pleasing to the eye than to suggest great thoughts which will speak to the imagination and the heart and will arouse all that is noblest and best in man.
External links
George Frederick Watts
Biography of Watts by W. Loftus Hare
Watts' painting Hope
BBC Restoration Appeal for the Watts Gallery
The Watts Gallery, Compton
Watts - 5 works in focus at Tate Online
Category:Painters from England
Category:Sculptors
Category:1817 births
Category:1904 deaths
Category:People from London