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Watts Gallery
Coordinates: 51°13′17″N 0°37′45″W / 51.2213°N 0.6293°W tors include Wilfrid Blunt and Richard Jefferies (curator),
/ 51.2213; -0.6293 one of the foremost authorities on Watts.
Watts Gallery was placed second in the final of the
BBC TV series Restoration Village in 2006.
In December 2006 Watts Gallery received a £4.3 milli-
on grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund for renovations
to help safeguard the future of the building and its collec-
tions. The Gallery plans further fund-raising to reach the
projected £10 million restoration costs.
In January 2008 it was announced that the Gallery in-
tends to deaccession and sell two Victorian paintings, Tri-
umph of Love (1880) by Albert Joseph Moore and Sleeping
Woman (1871) by Edward Burne-Jones. The money would
be used to maintain the Gallery which is closed from
September 2008 until 2010 for renovation.[1]
The Watts Gallery reopened in June 2011 after a major
Watts Gallery scheme of works, including extension, refurbishment
and restoration. This project was designed by ZMMA Ar-
Watts Gallery is an art gallery in the village of Comp- chitects.
ton, near Guildford in Surrey. It is dedicated to the work Compton’s burial ground, nearby, houses Watts’ re-
of Victorian era painter and sculptor George Frederic mains and is dominated by the Italianate Watts Mortuary
Watts. Chapel, designed by Mary Watts.
Watts moved to "Limnerslease" in Compton in 1891,
and with his artist wife Mary Fraser-Tytler, planned a
museum devoted to his work, which opened in April
References
1904, just before his death. [1] Watts Gallery to sell works - The Art Newspaper
The architect of the Gallery was Christopher Hatton
Turnor, an admirer of Edwin Lutyens and C.F.A. Voysey.
Inspired by the Arts and Crafts movement, the building
External links
contains top-lit galleries that allow Watts’s work to be • Watts Gallery website
displayed under natural light. • BBC Restoration Village on Watts Gallery
It is one of few galleries in the UK devoted to a single • Watts Gallery - ZMMA Website
artist, and has recently been marketed as "a national • Details from listed building database (288324) .
gallery in the heart of a village". The present director is Images of England. English Heritage.
Perdita Hunt and the curator is Mark Bills. Former cura-
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• Museums in Surrey
• Art museums and galleries in Surrey
• Biographical museums in the United Kingdom
• Buildings and structures completed in 1904
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