George Fiddes Watt
- Not to be confused with George Frederic Watts.
George Fiddes Watt | |
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Born | 15 February 1873 Aberdeen |
Died | 22 November 1960 Aberdeen |
Nationality | Scottish |
Education | Gray's School of Art Royal Scottish Academy |
Known for | Portrait painting, engraving |
Notable work | H.H. Asquith, A.J. Balfour... |
Elected | Royal Society of Arts |
George Fiddes Watt (15 February 1873 – 22 November 1960) was a Scottish portrait painter and engraver.
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Biography
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Watt studied art at Gray's School of Art, Edinburgh and the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh.[1] He was elected to the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) in 1924 and received an honorary LL.D. degree from the University of Aberdeen in 1955.[1][2]
Watt was sculpted by Henry Snell Gamley in 1912, Watt's son Albert having been sculpted by Gamley four years previously.[3] A bronze statue of Watt by Thomas Bayliss Huxley-Jones, made in 1942, is in Aberdeen.[4]
Works
Watt's large output includes paintings of many the famous people of his time in Britain.[2] An exception among the many portraits is a landscape, J. P. Inverarity Mauled by a Lioness, Somaliland .[5]
Portraits
- Lawyers
- Scientists
- Politicians
- H.H. Asquith[2]
- A.J. Balfour (National Portrait Gallery)[2][6]
- Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon[7]
- Academics
Mezzotint engravings
Collections and exhibitions
Watt's work was exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1906 to 1930. His portrait of his mother is in the Tate Gallery's collection.[1]
Family
His third son, Alexander Stuart Watt (1909–1967) was a journalist based in Paris. Alastair Fiddes Watt (b. 1954) is also a landscape painter.[2]
References
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- ↑ Thomas Martin Lindsay, portrait by George Fiddes Watt at bbc.co.uk/arts/, accessed 19 June 2013
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Bibliography
- Chamot, Mary; Farr, Dennis; Butlin, Martin. The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, II.
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- 1873 births
- 1960 deaths
- 19th-century engravers
- 20th-century engravers
- 19th-century Scottish painters
- 20th-century Scottish painters
- Scottish engravers
- People from Aberdeen
- Scottish portrait painters
- Alumni of Gray's School of Art
- Alumni of the Royal Scottish Academy