After Watts' death, several biographies
appeared, including a heavily edited version by his second wife, Mary, and the
appreciation by Chesterton.
Blunt (brother of the notorious Anthony) was keeper of the Watts Gallery in the 1960s and 70s, and a
paperback reprint of his biography of Watts can usually be purchased there. It's
an affectionate, even jovial account of the painter's life that makes no bones
about his flaws (he couldn't write for toffee, he was always ill, and some of
his allegorical paintings are dire) but neverthess shows what a quite
extraordinary life he led: one ends up wishing to have been Watts oneself.
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