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PORTRAITS OF CELEBRITIES.

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G. F. WATTS, R.A.

Born 1820.

AGE 17.
From a Painting by G. F. Watts.

AGE 47.
From a Photo. by Mrs. Cameron.

AGE 21.
From a Painting.

AGE 68.
From a Photo. by Messrs. Cameron & Smith.

UR portraits of Mr. G. F. Watts depict him at most interesting ages. The first was painted at seventeen by Mr. Watts himself, at which age his first picture was exhibited at the Royal Academy. At twenty-one, he had painted his first great historical picture; while at forty-seven, the age of our third portrait, he had just received the title of R.A.

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