# George Frederick Watts artist context and auction value notes Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/george-frederick-watts/ Profile generated: 2026-08-19T19:23:19.510Z Quality: high confidence, strong sources ## Artist identity - Nationality: British - Movements: Symbolism - Common media: Painting, Sculpture, Works on paper and prints represented in auction records ## Portrait ![George Frederick Watts](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/George_Frederic_Watts_by_George_Frederic_Watts.jpg/1280px-George_Frederic_Watts_by_George_Frederic_Watts.jpg) George Frederic Watts ยท Public domain Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:George_Frederic_Watts_by_George_Frederic_Watts.jpg ## About George Frederick Watts George Frederick Watts, more commonly identified by institutions as George Frederic Watts, was a British painter and sculptor who lived from 1817 to 1904. He is associated with Symbolism and became especially known for allegorical compositions that translated emotions, moral ideas, and human aspirations into figurative imagery. Works such as Hope and Love and Life are linked to his broader concept for the House of Life, an intended symbolic cycle addressing universal experience. Collectors may encounter his name on paintings, works on paper, portraits, symbolic subjects, and sculpture, with the abbreviated form G. F. Watts also appearing in market records. His presence in the collections and artist indexes of Tate, the National Gallery of Art, and Art UK helps distinguish him from similarly named makers. Accurate entity matching should account for the Frederic and Frederick spelling variants when reviewing catalogues, inscriptions, and auction data. ## Common works and media Auction and appraisal searches may surface paintings, works on paper, prints, sculpture, mixed-media objects, decorative works, and editions associated with Watts. His best-documented artistic context centers on allegorical and symbolic imagery, including works connected conceptually with the House of Life. Portraits and other figurative compositions may also appear under the canonical spelling George Frederic Watts or the abbreviated name G. F. Watts. Because broad auction categories can contain differently attributed or reproduced objects, the medium, inscriptions, edition status, provenance, and catalogue history should be checked for each work. ## Market and appraisal context George Frederick Watts market evidence should be interpreted through closely comparable works rather than a single headline result. Appraisily records place works attributed to him across paintings, works on paper and prints, sculpture, mixed media, decorative art, and editions. Relevant appraisal factors include medium, dimensions, date, subject, condition, restoration, signature or inscriptions, provenance, exhibition history, catalogue references, and the confidence of the attribution. Edition information matters when the object is a multiple. Comparable public sales should match the object as closely as possible, and reported prices should be checked for differing treatment of fees or buyer premiums. Private transactions, incomplete feeds, and later attribution changes may fall outside the available record. ## Appraisily data basis Appraisily artist pages combine researched artist identity data with matched auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Public results are evidence inputs, not substitutes for authentication, condition review, or a work-specific appraisal. ## Sources - Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q183245 - Tate: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/george-frederic-watts-586 - National Gallery of Art: https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.3365.html - Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/watts-george-frederic-18171904 - Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500026988 - Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Frederic_Watts - Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/george-frederick-watts/