Self-Portrait Aged Seventeen
Adopted by John and Sheila Dobson
Painted a year before he entered the famous Royal Academy Schools, in this accomplished early self-portrait Watts presents himself as an aspiring Romantic.
Not exhibited until much later in the artist’s lifetime, this striking work was likely intended as a private study. A small pencil drawing is just visible through thin layers of paint in the bottom-left corner.
c.1834
Oil on canvas
53.3 x 38.1cm
COMWG.10
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