GEORGE FREDERICK WATTS, O.M., R.A. | Fire, Study for the Carlton House Terrace Fresco, The Elements

Bequeathed by the artist's widow to their adopted daughter Lilian Chapman and thence by descent until 1982;

Sotheby's, Belgavia, 16 February 1982, lot 88;

Private collection

In November 1854 Watts painted the monumental figures of The Elements for Lord Eastnor's drawing room at 7 Carlton House Terrace. In 1966 the frescoes were removed, with the largest sections now at Malvern College in Worcestershire.