Limnerlease Ceiling Panel - Phoenix
Limnerlease Ceiling Panel - Phoenix
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Published 2023-04-19T14:54:10+00:00
This is one of many panels part of one of the ceilings at the Wattses house in Guildford. They date back to the early years of Mary and F. Watts relationship.
Following an extensive six-month honeymoon (during which they visited Egypt, Greece, Turkey, Sicily and France) the Wattses returned to Kensington. Aware of G F Watts’s failing health, the couple accepted an offer from their friends Andrew and May Hichens, to stay at their Surrey residence Monkshatch. Arriving in Compton in the winter of 1889, the couple remained until April the following year. This visit, initially intended to be a short break, redirected the course of their life together. It resulted in the couple founding a remarkable Arts & Crafts complex, known today as Watts Gallery – Artists’ Village.
| Date published | 19/04/2023 |
| Title | Limnerlease Ceiling Panel - Phoenix |
| Date | 1889 |
| Medium | Gesso |
| Artist | Mary Watts |
| Place | Watts Gallery |