George Frederic Watts - References in Popular Culture

References in Popular Culture

A picture by Watts is donated to a provincial museum by the protagonist of Elizabeth Taylor's 1953 novel Angel.

Watts is featured (not altogether favourably) as a character in Lynn Truss' comic novel "Tennyson's Gift".

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