George Frederic Watts
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personEnglish, 1817–1904play_circleStream Art
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Selected Works25

Previous Sales

Sotheby's
Physical Energy
Physical Energy
$237,324
Dec 2025
Bonhams
The creation of Eve
The creation of Eve
Sold
Mar 2025
Bonhams
Cloud landscape
Cloud landscape
$6,032
Mar 2023
Sotheby's
Loch Ness
Loch Ness
£30,000 ($40k USD)
Dec 2022
Christie's
Study for 'Love and Death'
Study for 'Love and Death'
$52,321
Jul 2022
Christie's
The Open Door
The Open Door
$25,413
Jul 2022
Christie's
Study of a classical figure
Study of a classical figure
$2,990
Jul 2022
Christie's
Clytie
Clytie, 1868
Sold
Jul 2022
Sotheby's
A sketchbook with 18 pages of drawings (one double-sided) mostly for the spandrel depicting St Matthew the Evangelist for the dome of St Paul's Cathedral
A sketchbook with 18 pages of drawings (one double-sided) mostly for the spandrel depicting St Matthew the Evangelist for the dome of St Paul's Cathedral
£1,500 ($2k USD)
Jul 2022
Sotheby's
A sketchbook with 18 pages of drawings (one double-sided) mostly for the spandrel depicting St Matthew the Evangelist for the dome of St Paul's Cathedral
A sketchbook with 18 pages of drawings (one double-sided) mostly for the spandrel depicting St Matthew the Evangelist for the dome of St Paul's Cathedral
$2,253
Jul 2022
Bonhams
Design for a mural
Design for a mural
$6,856
Jul 2022
Bonhams
Scene from 'As you like it'
Scene from 'As you like it'
$3,340
Mar 2022
Christie's
A Study with the Peacock's Feathers
A Study with the Peacock's Feathers
£525,000 ($693k USD)
Dec 2020
Christie's
Love and Death
Love and Death
£112,500 ($149k USD)
Dec 2020
Christie's
Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc
£35,000 ($46k USD)
Dec 2020
Christie's
'When Poverty comes in at the Door, Love flies out at the Window' (German proverb)
'When Poverty comes in at the Door, Love flies out at the Window' (German proverb)
£59,750 ($79k USD)
Jun 2004
Christie's
Olympus on Ida (The Judgment of Paris)
Olympus on Ida (The Judgment of Paris)
$167,300
May 2004
Christie's
Sir Galahad
Sir Galahad
£127,650 ($168k USD)
Feb 2003
Christie's
Haystacks (Study on Brighton Downs)
Haystacks (Study on Brighton Downs)
£17,327 ($23k USD)
Jun 2002
Christie's
Hope
Hope
£773,750 ($1.0M USD)
Jun 2001
Sworders · Artsy
MERMAID AND SHIP'S FIGUREHEAD WITH FLYING FISH
MERMAID AND SHIP'S FIGUREHEAD WITH FLYING FISH
Bidding closed

For Sale

ArtWise · Artsy
Sir Galahad
Sir Galahad, 1993
Sold
Offset Lithograph
M.S. Rau · Artsy
Portrait of Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone
Portrait of Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone, 1867
Sold
Oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. · Artsy
Study of Death for "Time and Death"
Study of Death for "Time and Death", 1868
For sale
Pen and brown ink on blue laid paper
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. · Artsy
Head of a Young Woman
Head of a Young Woman, 1860
For sale
Black chalk heightened with white on brown wove paper
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Other Museum Acquisitions12

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"The School of Legislation" in Lincoln's-Inn Hall, from "Illustrated London News"
Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, United States · Acquired 2014 · Accession 2014.545.3 · Wood engraving
Gift of Donato Esposito, 2014
Study for ‘The Court of Death’
Tate · United Kingdom · Acquired 2002 · Accession T07813 · Graphite on paper
Bequeathed by Sir Brinsley Ford through the Art Fund 2002
Study for ‘Life’s Illusions’. Verso: Study for ‘Life’s Illusions’
Tate · United Kingdom · Acquired 2002 · Accession T07812 · Crayon and graphite on paper. Verso: crayon and graphite on paper
Bequeathed by Sir Brinsley Ford through the Art Fund 2002
Study for ‘Jonah’
Tate · United Kingdom · Acquired 2002 · Accession T07811 · Crayon on paper
Bequeathed by Sir Brinsley Ford through the Art Fund 2002
Daphne
Tate · United Kingdom · Acquired 1955 · Accession T00012 · Marble
Presented by the executors of Francis Howard 1955
Miss Mary Kirkpatrick Brunton
Tate · United Kingdom · Acquired 1952 · Accession N06084 · Oil paint on canvas
Purchased 1952
Augusta, Lady Castletown
Tate · United Kingdom · Acquired 1952 · Accession N06083 · Oil paint on canvas
Bequeathed by Maj. W.R.D. Mackenzie 1952
Study of Clouds
Tate · United Kingdom · Acquired 1951 · Accession N06026 · Oil paint on canvas
Purchased 1951
Mrs George Augustus Frederick Cavendish-Bentinck and her Children
Tate · United Kingdom · Acquired 1948 · Accession N05806 · Oil paint on canvas
Presented by W.G.F. Cavendish-Bentinck 1948
Eveleen Tennant, later Mrs F.W.H. Myers
Tate · United Kingdom · Acquired 1940 · Accession N05116 · Oil paint on canvas
Presented by Mrs Richard Blennerhassett 1940
Nymphs and Satyrs
Tate · United Kingdom · Acquired 1930 · Accession N04557 · Oil paint on canvas
Presented by Miss Lucy Jarvis 1930
The Golden Age
Tate · United Kingdom · Acquired 1930 · Accession N04556 · Oil paint on canvas
Presented by Miss Lucy Jarvis 1930
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Market1 auction results

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$3.0K – $52.3K
9 of 13 paintings lots with prices
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$22.9K
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$17.3K
9 priced paintings lots
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Jun 2024 · $45.1K
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Paintings: $17.3K medianSculpture/objects: $237K medianWorks on paper: $2.3K medianDecorative/non-core: $71.8K median
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death
George Frederic Watts dies
Jan 1, 1904
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birth
George Frederic Watts born
Jan 1, 1817