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GF Watts
Presented by Lady Holroyd 1919
painting oil paint canvas
Sketch of G.F. Watts
support: 559 × 406 mm
Presented by Lady Holroyd 1919
<p><b>N03397</b> SKETCH OF G. F. WATTS 1897
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<br/>Inscr. ‘Charles Holroyd 1897’ t.r.
<br/>Canvas, 22×16 (56×40·5).
<br/>Presented by Lady Holroyd 1919.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts, Glasgow, 1905 (673, repr. fig. 57).</p>
<p>The Tate Gallery also has a self-<a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/portrait" title="Glossary definition for 'Portrait'"><span>portrait</span></a> of Watts (<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/watts-self-portrait-n01561" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N01561</span></a>) and a <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/m/metal" title="Glossary definition for 'Metal'"><span>bronze</span></a> head by Sir Alfred Gilbert (<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/gilbert-george-frederic-watts-o-m-r-a-n01949" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N01949</span></a>).</p>
<p>A bronze medal of Watts by Holroyd is in the National Portrait Gallery. Like the portrait sketch it shows the sitter quarter-length and in profile to left.</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, I
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