Caroline Watts

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The Bugler Girl (1908)
Tristan and Isolde (1902)
The Courtship of Ferb (1902)

Caroline Marsh Watts (born in Handsworth in 1868 ; died in Colehill , Dorset in 1919 ) was a British painter.

Life

Caroline Watts was the youngest child of the button manufacturer Robert Watts. Her father retired in 1891 and moved to St Margarets in Twickenham with the younger children . Watts studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in London . When his father died in 1894, he left a considerable fortune. Watts moved to Pimlico with her sister Mary Watts , her sister stated in the 1901 census as employment compiler of indexes and Caroline Watts painter.

From 1899 onwards, illustrations of the Arthurian legend and historical novels by the writer Jessie Weston can be traced back to Alfred Nutt's publishing house . After Nutt's accidental death, his wife took over the management of the publishing house. She was also a committed women's rights activist and published the writings of the suffragettes , possibly referring Watts to women's suffrage.

In 1908, Watts designed the Artists' Suffrage League Bugler Girl poster for the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) June demonstration. The motif subsequently became the logo of the suffragette newspaper and was copied many times. It was also adopted by the US women's suffrage movement.

Watts lived with her sister in Godalming in 1911 and in Colehil in Dorset in 1918 .

Book illustrations (selection)

  • Gottfried von Strasbourg : The Story of Tristan and Iseult . Translation from the German Jessie L. Weston. Illustrations Caroline Watts. 1899
  • Guingamor, Launfal, Tyolet, The were-wolf . Translation from the French Jessie Laidley Weston. Illustrations Caroline Watts. Nutt, London 1900
  • Marie de France : Seven of her Lays . Translation from the French Edith Rickert . Illustrations Caroline Watts. Nutt, London 1901
  • Arthur Herbert Leahy (Ed.): The Courtship of Ferb: an old Irish romance; transcribed in the twelfth century into the Book of Leinster . Illustrations Caroline Watts. Nutt, London 1902
  • Sir Cleges; Sir Libeaus Desconus: two old English metrical romances . In prose form by Jessie L. Weston. Illustrations Caroline Watts. Nutt, London 1902
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge : Christabel . Illustrations Caroline Watts. JM Dent, London 1904
  • Sir Gawain at the Grail Castle . Translation from the French Jessie L. Weston. Illustrations Caroline Watts. 1904
  • Katharine Tynan : The wild harp: a selection from Irish poetry . Illustrations Caroline Watts. London 1913

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Handsworth was later incorporated into Birmingham , see English Wikipedia en: Handsworth, West Midlands .
personal data
SURNAME Watts, Caroline
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Watts, Caroline Marsh (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Handsworth
DATE OF DEATH 1919
Place of death Colehill , Dorset