Caroline Marsh Watts (1868–1919) was a British painter. She was born in Handsworth, now part of Birmingham, and died at Colehill in Dorset.[1]
Life
Tristan and Inseult (1902)The Courtship of Ferb (1902)
Caroline Watts was the youngest child of Robert Watts. He manufactured buttons in Handsworth up to the year 1891, when he retired and moved to St Margarets in the Twickenham area with his youngest children. Caroline Watts studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in London.[1] Upon their father's death in 1894, Watts and her sister Mary moved to Pimlico. In the 1901 census, the sisters stated Mary's occupation was compiler of indexes, while Caroline worked as a painter.[1]
The first illustrations that can be traced back to her were drawn from 1899 on. Some depict the King Arthur legend, while others were drawn for various historical novels written by Jessie Weston and published by Alfred Nutt. Upon Nutt's death, his wife M. L. Nutt, an involved women's rights activist, took over the publishing house.[2] Under her watch, various suffragette works were published. It is therefore assumed that she put Watts in touch with the women's right activists.
Gottfried von Straßburg: The Story of Tristan and Iseult. Translated from the German by Jessie L. Weston. Illustrations by Caroline Watts. 1899
Guingamor, Launfal, Tyolet, The were-wolf. Translated from the French by Jessie Laidley Weston. Illustrations by Caroline Watts. Nutt, London. 1900
Marie de France: Seven of her Lays. Translated from the French by Edith Rickert. Illustrations by Caroline Watts. Nutt, London. 1901
Arthur Herbert Leahy (Publisher): The Courtship of Ferb : an old Irish romance ; transcribed in the twelfth century into the Book of Leinster. Illustrations by Caroline Watts. Nutt, London. 1902
Sir Cleges ; Sir Libeaus Desconus: two old English metrical romances. Prose by Jessie L. Weston. Illustrations by Caroline Watts. Nutt, London. 1902
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Christabel. Illustrations by Caroline Watts. J.M. Dent, London. 1904
Sir Gawain at the Grail Castle. Translated from the French by Jessie L. Weston. Illustrations by Caroline Watts. 1904
Katharine Tynan: The wild harp: a selection from Irish poetry. Illustrations by Caroline Watts. London. 1913
References
^ a b cCrawford, Elizabeth (3 December 2014). "Suffrage Stories/Women Artists: Caroline Watts And the 'Bugler Girl'". Retrieved 6 January 2019.
^H. R. Tedder, rev. Sayoni Basu (2004). "Nutt, Alfred (1856–1910)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/35269. Retrieved 16 January 2019. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^Tickner, Lisa (1987). The spectacle of women : imagery of the Suffrage Campaign 1907–14. London: Chatto & Windus. p. 250. ISBN 0-7011-2952-2.
^Tickner (1987), p. 266
^Lucinda Gosling, Hilary Robinson & Amy Tobin (2019). Helena Reckitt (ed.). The Art of Feminism. Tate Publishing.
External links
Caroline Watts on Artblogs
Finley, Gaelle (30 April 2018). "Caroline Marsh Watts". Retrieved 6 January 2019.