File:George Frederic Watts - Knight and Maiden.jpg

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George Frederic Watts: Knight and Maiden   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
George Frederic Watts  (1817–1904)  wikidata:Q183245 s:en:Author:George Frederic Watts q:en:George Frederick Watts
 
George Frederic Watts
Description British painter and sculptor
Date of birth/death 23 February 1817 Edit this at Wikidata 1 July 1904 / 1 June 1904 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death London Edit this at Wikidata Compton Edit this at Wikidata
Work period 1837 Edit this at Wikidata–1899 Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
London, Florence, Paris, Istanbul
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artist QS:P170,Q183245
Title
Knight and Maiden
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Description
English: «The hero is unmistakably Watts himself. No less certain is the identification of the frail young girl who delicately embraces him as Ellen Terry, the inclination of her head the very embodiment of yeilding tenderness. The middle-aged knight leans on his last and gently looks down at her, protectively, with a kind of sad satisfaction; satisfied perhaps at being able to sheild her from what he conceived to be the dangers and temptations of her previous life, yet sad precisely because age and long habits of abstinence obliged him to be protector rather than lover. This is a picture full of compassion, a story of two unhappy people who find consolation by ministering to one another's infirmities.» (D. Loshak, "G. F. Watts and Ellen Terry", Burlington Magazine, November 1963, p. 484) (see source)
Date Unknown date
Medium oil on panel
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q106857709,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 51 cm (20 in); width: 28 cm (11 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,51U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,28U174728
Private collection
institution QS:P195,Q768717
Source/Photographer Sotheby's – image

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