Excerpt from George Frederic Watts, Vol. 3: His Writings To these few forewords may be added a few afterwords which seemed to be out of place at the conclusion of the second volume. More than eight years have now passed since my husband's death, and during that time I have been sent occasional comments, generally made by foreigners and in their own newspapers, which have expressed surprise that he had not been honoured by a public memorial. I would therefore like to explain that not long after his death the President of ...
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Excerpt from George Frederic Watts, Vol. 3: His Writings To these few forewords may be added a few afterwords which seemed to be out of place at the conclusion of the second volume. More than eight years have now passed since my husband's death, and during that time I have been sent occasional comments, generally made by foreigners and in their own newspapers, which have expressed surprise that he had not been honoured by a public memorial. I would therefore like to explain that not long after his death the President of the Royal Academy, Sir Edward Poynter, took the initial steps to form a committee to consider this matter, h.r.h. The Prince of Wales, our present King, having signified his willingness that his name should be connected with the scheme. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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