George Frederick Watts painted feelings rather than people, and it is that clarity of idea that carries his work so well into counted cross stitch.
Watts was a British painter and sculptor, born in 1817 and died in 1904. He worked in portraiture, but the pictures that made his name in his own lifetime were the allegories, among them Hope and Love and Life. These were never meant to stand alone. He imagined them as parts of an enormous symbolic cycle he called the House of Life, a scheme in which every emotion and ambition a person might hold would be given a form anyone could read. He never finished it, though the individual paintings have long outlived the plan.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, John Everett Millais, and Arnold Bocklin worked in the same Symbolist vein.
If it is the painting itself you love rather than the stitching, George Frederick Watts art prints are easy to find.
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