# Frederick Waters Watts artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T17:37:53.705Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: English
- Common media: Oil on canvas, Oil on card

## About Frederick Waters Watts

Frederick Waters Watts (1800–1870) was an English landscape painter whose work belongs to the tradition of nineteenth-century British landscape painting. The available biographical material associates his approach with the influence of John Constable, although the collected institutional excerpts do not provide a fuller account of that relationship. Watts is documented under several names, including Frederick W. Watts, Frederic William Watts, William Watts, and William Frederick Watts, making authority records particularly useful for entity matching. Surviving examples in the source pack depict English scenery shaped by rivers, bridges, locks, mature trees, abbeys, and village churches. Named locations include Hendon, Windsor, Tintern Abbey, and the upper Thames. Collectors may therefore encounter his work as oil landscapes on canvas or card, often organized around recognizable rural architecture or waterways. These subjects and the artist's multiple recorded names make careful comparison of titles, supports, dimensions, provenance, and attribution especially important.

## Common works and media

The source pack most clearly documents easel landscapes in oil on canvas and oil on card. Recorded subjects include river valleys, bridges, locks, wooded scenery, abbeys, and village churches, with examples connected to Hendon, Windsor, Tintern Abbey, and the upper Thames. No reliable evidence in the pack establishes a print, sculpture, ceramic, or editioned-work practice.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal of a work attributed to Frederick Waters Watts begins with identity, because several forms of his name appear in public records. For an individual picture, useful comparison points include the medium and support, dimensions, named location, landscape subject, and documented provenance. River scenes, bridges, locks, abbeys, and village churches are among the subjects represented in the collected examples. Comparable public auction records should be matched as closely as possible by work type, scale, subject, attribution, sale date, and catalogue context. The supplied source pack identifies an auction-facing Appraisily artist page but contains no extracted realized prices, condition reports, or detailed auction-house entries. It therefore supports a framework for comparison, not a price prediction or claim about market direction.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5498969
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500000283
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2009045901
- Tate: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/frederick-waters-watts-585
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/83077
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/watts-frederick-w-18001870
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_W._Watts
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_W._Watts
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:An_Old_Bridge_at_Hendon,_Middlesex_MET_DP169650.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tintern-abbey-frederick-waters-watts.jpg