RUBENS. S.L. BENSUSAN.
WHISTLER. T. MARTIN WOOD.
HOLBEIN. S.L. BENSUSAN.
BURNE-JONES. A. LYS BALDRY.
VIGEE LE BRUN. C. HALDANE MACFALL.
CHARDIN. PAUL G. KONODY.
FRAGONARD. C. HALDANE MACFALL.
MEMLINC. W.H.J. & J.C. WEALE.
CONSTABLE. C. LEWIS HIND.
RAEBURN. JAMES L. CAW.
JOHN S. SARGENT. T. MARTIN WOOD.
LAWRENCE. S.L. BENSUSAN.
DUERER. H.E.A. FURST.
MILLET. PERCY M. TURNER.
WATTEAU. C. LEWIS HIND.
HOGARTH. C. LEWIS HIND.
MURILLO. S.L. BENSUSAN.
WATTS. W. LOFTUS HARE.
INGRES. A.J. FINBERG.

Others in Preparation.

The Publishers have to acknowledge the permission of Mrs.
Watts to reproduce the series of paintings here included.

[Illustration: IN SEMPITERNUM.]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Plate

I. Death crowning Innocence Frontispiece
At the Tate Gallery

II. The Minotaur
At the Tate Gallery

III. Hope
At the Tate Gallery

IV. Thomas Carlyle
At the South Kensington Museum

V. Love and Life
At the Tate Gallery

VI. Love Triumphant
At the Tate Gallery

VII. The Good Samaritan
At the Manchester Art Gallery

VIII. Prayer
At the Manchester Art Gallery

[Illustration]

I

A BIOGRAPHICAL OUTLINE

In July of 1904 the eighty-seven mortal years of George Frederick Watts
came to an end. He had outlived all the contemporaries and acquaintances
of his youth; few, even among the now living, knew him in his middle
age; while to those of the present generation, who knew little of the
man though much of his work, he appeared as members of the Ionides
family, thus inaugurating the series of private and public portraits for
which he became so famous. The Watts of our day, however, the teacher
first and the painter afterwards, had not yet come on the scene. His
first aspiration towards monumental painting began in the year 1843,
when in a competition for the decoration of the Houses of Parliament he
gained a prize of L300 for his cartoon of "Caractacus led Captive
through the Streets of Rome." At this time, when history was claiming
pictorial art as her servant and expositor, young Watts carried off the
prize against the whole of his competitors. This company included the
well-known historical painter Haydon, who, from a sense of the
impossi