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Life’s Illusions by George Frederic Watts — VisualArtsDB

Life’s Illusions

Life’s Illusions

George Frederic Watts

1849

Medium: Oil paint on canvas
Dimensions: support: 2445 x 1835 mm
Museum: Tate

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Mammon

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Mrs George Augustus Frederick Cavendish-Bentinck and her Children

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Death Crowning Innocence

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Ruth and Boaz

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George Frederic Watts, 1835

Chaos

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‘For he had great possessions’

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The Messenger

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