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Mary Fraser Tytler

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44: 322:(HAIA), worked to create employment for rural communities through the preservation of handicrafts. During the execution of the Watts Mortuary Chapel, Watts trained workers in clay modelling, an initiative that eventually led to the establishment of the Compton Potters' Guild in 1899. She was a firm believer in the idea that anyone given the opportunity could produce things of beauty and that everyone should have a craft within which they could express themselves creatively. She supported the revival of the Celtic style, the indigenous artistic expression of 390: 402: 426: 438: 450: 414: 378: 875: 304: 330:. In 1899, she was asked to design rugs in this style for the carpet company Alexander Morton & Co of Darvel, Liberty's main producer of furnishing fabrics. In cooperation with the 389: 1101: 927: 250: 210:
Watts, née Fraser-Tytler, was born on 25 November 1849, in India. She was the daughter of Charles Edward Fraser Tytler of Balnain and Aldourie, who worked for the
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See V. Irene Cockroft, New Dawn Women: Women in the Arts & Crafts and Suffrage Movements at the Dawn of the 20th Century (Surrey: Watts Gallery, 2005), p.13.
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Watts was President of the Godalming and District National Union of Women's Suffrage Society (a local branch of the
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Watts died at her home, Limnerslease, in Compton on 6 September 1938. Her remains are buried in the Watts Chapel.
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British women artists : a biographical dictionary of 1,000 women artists in the British decorative arts
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Chapel, showing in foreground terracotta grave marker made in the Compton pottery
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later the same year. During 1872 and 1873 Tytler studied sculpture at the
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Watts pioneered Liberty's Celtic style, with much of the imagery for the
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being based on her earlier designs at the Watts Mortuary Chapel.
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Barbara Coffey Bryant, "Watts, George Frederic (1817–1904)",
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After her marriage, Watts largely worked in the fields of
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in Compton (1895–1904); and had built and maintained the
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Mary Seton Watts – Unsung Heroine of the Art Nouveau
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carpets, book-bindings, metalwork, and textiles for
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Index

Mary Seton Watts

Compton
Surrey
England
Scottish
South Kensington School of Art
Slade School of Art
Painting
Ceramics
Gothic Revival
Art Nouveau
George Frederic Watts
symbolist
East India Company
Dresden
South Kensington School of Art
Slade School of Art
Julia Margaret Cameron
Freshwater
George Frederic Watts
Epsom
Surrey
National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
Celtic
Modern Style (British Art Nouveau style)
pottery
metalwork
Compton Potters' Arts Guild
Arts & Crafts Guild

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