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George Frederic Watts, a Victorian International Artist

In 1884 the life’s work of one of England’s greatest painters sailed across the Atlantic to America for an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. This fascinating story of international art lending is just one of many to be found in the correspondence of George Frederic Watts.…

By Ruth Benny, Archive Cataloguer

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12 December 2013

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