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. By this time, Watts had acquired a country home in Surrey - Limnerslease - around which he and his second wife, the designer Mary Watts, built a type of utopian settlement, which has recently been restored and opened to the public as Watts Gallery - Artists' Village. By the end of his life Watts was a national figure, an inspirational artist who had found a meaningful role for art as a catalyst for social change and community integration.

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Watts's pictures ... contain the half-stifled secrets that their era tried to suppress ... disturbingly fresh. -- February 20 2017, 12:01am, February 20 2017, 12:01am, Rachel Campbell-Johnston The Times

Watts's pictures ... contain the half-stifled secrets that their era tried to suppress ... disturbingly fresh. * The Times * Tromans ... offers a frank, fair and ultimately endearing overview of Watts' curious career and the complexities of his personality whilst conjuring a lively picture of the cultural, social and political climate. * Art Quarterly *

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Nicholas Tromans is curator at Watts Gallery. He has published widely on nineteenth-century British art, including the acclaimed Richard Dadd: The Artist and the Asylum.

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