Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Mary Seton Watts, née Fraser-Tytler after George Frederic Watts




1849-1948.
signed 'Mary' (lower right)
watercolour and bodycolour with gum arabic on paper
5½ x 3¾ in.

The present watercolour is a miniature copy after Watts's famous painting in Tate Britain, by the artist who became his second wife in 1886.

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2 comments:

ana said...

Beautiful and melancholic!
Thanks!

Hermes said...

I've always thought it an amazing picture but didn't realise his future wife had done a copy. How romantic.