An Artist's Village: G. F. Watts and Mary Watts in Compton: G.F. and Mary Watts in Compton - Brossura

Bills, Mark

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0856676969 ISBN 13: 9780856676963

Casa editrice: Philip Wilson Pub Ltd, 2011

Riassunto

This book tells the story of the impact G.F. Watts (a major nineteenth-century artist) and his wife Mary Watts had on Compton, a small village in Surrey. Compton later became their artists’ retreat and where they built the Watts Gallery, the Compton Pottery, and the extraordinary Cemetery Chapel.

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L'autore:

Mark Bills is curator of Watts Gallery. Formerly he was senior curator of paintings, prints, and drawings at the Museum of London and Visual Arts Officer at the Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum. He has published widely on eighteenth-century and particularly nineteenth-century art, including William Powell Frith and G.F. Watts, Victorian Visionary, and numerous articles for magazines including Burlington Magazine and Apollo. He has curated national and international exhibitions including A Victorian Salon, at the Dahesh Museum, New York and Satirizing London, at the Museum of London with the accompanying book The Art of Satire: London in Caricature, also published by PWP.

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Book by Bills Mark

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• Editore: Philip Wilson Pub Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0856676969
• ISBN 13: 9780856676963
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 168