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Born: 23 February 1817 Died: 1 July 1904
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United Kingdom
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George Frederic Watts, OM, RA (23 February 1817 – 1 July 1904) was a popular English Victorian painter and sculptor associated with the Symbolist movement.
He said "I paint ideas, not things."
Watts became famous in his lifetime for his allegorical works, such as 'Hope' and 'Love and Life'. These paintings were intended to form part of an epic symbolic cycle called the "House of Life", in which the emotions and aspirations of life would all be represented in a universal symbolic language.
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