Mark Bills and Barbara Bryant
G. F. Watts: Victorian Visionary
New Haven:
Yale University Press,
2009.
324 pp.; 220 color ills.
Cloth
$75.00
(9780300142570)
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G. F. Watts: Victorian Visionary is not a catalogue raisonné of the work of Watts, the artist whose work was simultaneously both deeply eccentric from and superbly characteristic of Victorian painting and sculpture. Omitting major works in the collection of the Tate Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery among others, it is far from a complete survey. Yet because the volume documents (with lush color illustrations) the extensive collection of key works, preparatory and preliminary...