Commentators have been dismissive of Russell Barrington. Ronald Chapman
calls him a husband of inferior powers.
Chapman, Ronald. The Laurel and the Thorn: A Study of G.F. Watts. Faber and Faber, 1945.
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Wilfrid Blunt
says he was a rich, amiable nonentity: always as clay in her hands.
Blunt, Wilfrid Jasper Walter. ’England’s Michelangelo’. H. Hamilton, 1975.
159
The couple...
Friends, Associates
Emilie Barrington
She met him again through their mutual friend Mrs Nassau Senior
. Watts's biographer Ronald Chapman
suggests that Watts needed Barrington as a mirror to show him his reflection, to present to him an encouraging...
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Chapman, Ronald. The Laurel and the Thorn: A Study of G.F. Watts. Faber and Faber, 1945.