The new international encyclopaedia . ted with a strong element of deficient in academic training, Wattssdrawing is good in a large constructive sense,while at times his color is powerful and most interesting work is perhaps the sym-bolical pictures forming his message to the age—the danger of riches, the cruelty of greed, and,above all, the power of love and the fallacy ofthe fear of death. Among the most importantof this group are Love and Life (1885), whichtlie artist said best jiortrayed his message tothe age. and which the Womans ChristianTem])eranee Union in vain en
The new international encyclopaedia . ted with a strong element of deficient in academic training, Wattssdrawing is good in a large constructive sense,while at times his color is powerful and most interesting work is perhaps the sym-bolical pictures forming his message to the age—the danger of riches, the cruelty of greed, and,above all, the power of love and the fallacy ofthe fear of death. Among the most importantof this group are Love and Life (1885), whichtlie artist said best jiortrayed his message tothe age. and which the Womans ChristianTem])eranee Union in vain endeavored to removefrom the White House; Love and Death(1877-96); and Love Triumphant (1898).Other celebrated examples are llojie (1885),Faith (1890). The Good Samaritan (CityHall. Manchester), Sir Galahad. Psyche,Orpheus and Eiirydice. There are modemportraitists of greater technical ability than\\atts. but in force of expression, in freedomand simplicity of technique he is unsurpassed,and will even bear comparison with 3< I- H< 5 WATTS. 371 WATTS-DUNTON. No otlier has depicted so many disiinf;uislifdcontiiiiporarips. His sitters include Gladstone,the Dulce of Devonshire, Lord Salishury, andJohn Burns ainonf; public men; Tennyson,Browning, Swinburne, Matthew Arnold, andWilliam Morris among poets; John Stiuirt Mill,Carlyle, and Meredith among prose-writers;himself (many times). Lord Leighton, Rossetti,and Burnc-Jones among painters; and foreigncelebrities like Garibaldi, Thiers, Guizot, andJerome Bonaparte. In his few works of sculpture Watts standsunsurpassed among modern Knglishmen in bold-ness and breadth of troMtment, and in nobility ofstyle. Such works are: the bust of Clytie;Bishop Lonsdale, in Lichfield Cathedral;Lord Lothian, in Bickling Church; HugoLupus, a large bronze equestrian statue atEaton Hall; Physical Energy (1902), symbol-izing the character of Cecil Kluides, a replica ofwliieh is destined for tlie Jlatto])po Hills, inSoutli Africa; and Lo
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