George Frederick Watts O.M., R.A. 1817-1904

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• George Frederic Watts, O.M., R.A.
• A COLLECTION OF EARLY WORKS, INCLUDING: PORTRAIT OF ADMIRAL LORD LYONS; A BOY ON HORSEBACK (AFTER STUBBS); THE DEATH OF THE STAG (VERSO, STUDY OF A CLASSICAL HERO); STUDIES OF A GREYHOUND; TWO VARIANT STUDIES FOR THE GOOD SAMARITAN; LUCRETIA; APPROXIMATELY TWENTY-THREE COPIES AFTER OLD MASTERS (INCLUDING TITIAN, DEL SARTO, VAN DYCK, TINTORETTO); STUDY FOR JACOB AND ESAU; A RECLINING LADY
• one inscribed l.r.: Admiral Lord Lyons; another signed and dated l.l.: Geo. F. Watts Del. Sep. 1831. ; bears an inscription on an old label pasted to the reverse: A copy from a drawing/ by Stubbs made by Signor/ aged thirteen/ He remembered copying the print/ stroke for stroke
• two pen and ink; another pen and ink with wash; one pencil and white chalk; approximately 26 watercolours; one oil on canvas; one pencil, sold with eight watercolour landscapes by Mary Watts

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