George Frederic Wattsイギリス, 1817–1904Life’s Illusions
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その頃、George Frederic Wattsの人生では
生涯をすべて見る1843–1847
Friendship with Lord and Lady Holland
During his Italian stay Watts becomes close to the British ambassador Henry Fox, 4th Baron Holland, and his wife Augusta, visiting their homes, Casa Feroni and the Villa Careggi in Tuscany. For them he paints a portrait of Lady Holland, shown in 1848, and — after experimental studies in the medium — a fresco at the villa.
1843–1847
A long stay in Italy funded by the prize
The prize money pays for a long stay in Italy, which lasts until April 1847. There he begins to paint landscapes and is inspired by Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel and Giotto’s Scrovegni Chapel.
1847
Second Parliament competition: “Alfred the Great”
While still in Italy, Watts enters a new Parliament competition with the picture “Alfred Inciting the Saxons to Prevent the Landing of the Danes by Encountering Them at Sea” — a patriotic subject treated with an eye to Phidias. The picture wins a first-class prize of £500; the government buys it and hangs it in one of the committee rooms of the House of Commons.
April 1847
Leaves Florence and stays in London
In April 1847 Watts leaves Florence for what was meant to be a brief return to London, but he ends up staying there.
1849
Exhibits his first allegorical compositions
In 1849 the first two of his allegorical compositions, the most characteristic of his output, are exhibited: “Life’s Illusions”, an elaborate depiction of the vanity of human desires, and “The People That Sat in Darkness”, turning eagerly toward the dawning day.
1850–1871
Lives with the Prinseps at Little Holland House
After meeting Henry Thoby Prinsep and his wife Sara in his studio, Watts enters the Prinseps’ bohemian circle, which includes Sara’s sisters and Julia Margaret Cameron; in 1850 he helps them take a 21-year lease on Little Holland House and lives there with them and their salon for those years. Of pupils he accepted only two — the hosts’ son Valentine Cameron Prinsep and John Roddam Spencer Stanhope; both remained friends, but neither became a major artist.
