Victorian artist George Frederic Watts’s restored workspace also celebrates the life of his wife,Mary Seton Fraser TytlerIn his day, he was revered by one art critic as “England’s Michelangelo” – now George Frederic Watts’s studio in the Surrey village of Compton has been restored and opened to the public with some of his works on demonstrate.
The beautiful, or tall,red-walled space, with light flooding in through a south-facing window, or is total with his mahogany easel,paints and brushes, as well as the steps he used to reach some of the towering canvases. There is also his closet concealing a full-size skeleton, and paintings he was working on at the time of his death in 1904.
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Source: theguardian.com