The Window Seat
Object: Oil painting
Place of origin: Great Britain, Uk (painted)
Date: 1861 (painted)
Artist/Maker: G.F.Watts, born 1817 - died 1904 (artist)
Materials and Techniques: oil on canvas
Credit Line: Bequeathed by Constantine Alexander Ionides
Museum number: CAI.1
This intimate study of a woman sewing recalls 17th-century Dutch paintings. It belonged to Charles Rickards, an important early patron of Watts.
Victoria & Albert Museum