George Frederic Watts

EC 's mother, the well-known actress Ellen Terry , had already, before Edith was born, been married to the painter G. F. Watts for less than a year from 1864, and was not divorced. She...

CFT 's sister who became by marriage Mary Watts grew up to be an artist who in a retrospective of her work at the Watts Gallery in 1998 was called the unsung heroine of the...

CFT 's portrait was painted by her sister Mary at least twice, in 1870 and again in 1877. In the spring of 1870 Christina chaperoned her younger sister on her first visit to George Frederic Watts

He was not well enough to undertake charge of another parish for twelve years. Knitting proved to be a therapeutic activity, and he made a sweater for George Frederic Watts , along with many other...

VW 's mother, née Julia Prinsep Jackson (1846-95), was born in India and brought to England as a toddler. She was a favourite niece (and subject) of photographer Julia Margaret Cameron , on whom...

In London, PJ visited and recited poetry before Edward Burne-Jones , George Frederic Watts , Frederic Leighton , Lawrence Alma-Tadema , and Jerome K. Jerome , among others.

EB probably first met painter George Frederic Watts before she was married, at the studio of Dante Gabriel Rossetti .

These tastes leaned to the pre-Raphaelite, with Morris hangings and photogravures after Burne-Jones and Watts . The house was also inhabited by a Persian cat and a fox-terrier; the two animals hated each other.

The book was a particular delight to women readers, but its popularity extended to people of both genders and all classes. Lady Constance Lytton later recalled that her father and the artist George Frederic Watts

After Watts 's former residence at Little Holland House was pulled down in 1875, it was EB who provided a long-term home at her own house for some of the frescoes with which Watts had...

She wrote to the Times on 30 March 1888 about a scheme, first proposed by George Frederic Watts and now to be undertaken by Walter Crane for the Kyrle Society , which combined her interest...

Freshwater was the name of Julia Margaret Cameron 's estate on the Isle of Wight, where Anne Thackeray Ritchie had a cottage. The Stephen children had stayed there. This farcical presentation of Victorian life...

EB compiled a critical catalogue of paintings by George Frederic Watts for an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York—which she herself had persuaded Watts to agree to.

EB published her first biography: G. F. Watts : Reminiscences.