Nationality Scottish Elected Royal Society of Arts | Name George Watt Education Gray's School of Art | |
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Born 15 February 1873 Aberdeen Known for Portrait painting, engraving Notable work H.H. Asquith, A.J. Balfour... Died 1960, Aberdeen, United Kingdom | ||
George Fiddes Watt (15 February 1873 – 22 November 1960) was a Scottish portrait painter and engraver.
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Biography
Watt studied art at Gray's School of Art, Edinburgh and the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh. He was elected to the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) in 1924 and received an honorary LL.D. degree from the University of Aberdeen in 1955.
Watt was sculpted by Henry Snell Gamley in 1912, Watt's son Albert having been sculpted by Gamley four years previously. A bronze statue of Watt by Thomas Bayliss Huxley-Jones, made in 1942, is in Aberdeen.
Works
Watt's large output includes paintings of many the famous people of his time in Britain. An exception among the many portraits is a landscape, J. P. Inverarity Mauled by a Lioness, Somaliland .
Portraits
Mezzotint engravings
Collections and exhibitions
Watt's work was exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1906 to 1930. His portrait of his mother is in the Tate Gallery's collection.
Family
His third son, Alexander Stuart Watt (1909–1967) was a journalist based in Paris. Alastair Fiddes Watt (b. 1954) is also a landscape painter.