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Hope (painting)
''Hope'' is a Symbolist oil painting by George Frederic Watts, two versions of which were completed in 1886. The painting was intended to form part of a series of allegorical paintings by Watts entitled the "House of Life".
==Description==
The painting by George Frederic Watts shows a female allegorical figure of Hope. Hope is traditionally identifiable through the attribute of an anchor, but Watts took a more original approach. In his painting, she is depicted sitting on a globe, blindfolded, clutching a wooden lyre with only one string left intact. She sits in a hunched position, with her head leaning towards the instrument, perhaps so she can hear the faint music she can make with the sole remaining string. According to Watts, "Hope need not mean expectancy. It suggests here rather the music which can come from the remaining chord". The desolate atmosphere is emphasised by Watts's soft brushwork, creating a misty, ethereal scene, in tones of green, brown and grey. Watts's melancholy depiction of hope was criticised, and G. K. Chesterton suggested that a better title would be ''Despair''.
Two versions were painted by Watts in 1886, shortly after the death of Watts's adopted daughter Blanche. The first version – now held in a private collection – was exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery in 1886 and received so successfully that he painted a second copy. Watts himself preferred the second, softer, version. It omits the star – a symbol of optimism – that appears at the top of the first version. It was exhibited at the South Kensington Museum (now the V&A) and at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1889. Watts refused an offer of 2000 guineas for the second version in 1888, and presented it to the Tate in 1897.〔- Total pages: 20〕 The version held by the Tate measures by .
Watts may have been inspired by the pose of the siren in Dante Gabriel Rossetti's 1877 painting ''A Sea Spell'', or the sleeping women in Albert Joseph Moore's 1882 painting ''Dreamers''. Watts may have taken inspiration for the blindfold from the allegorical figure of Fortune in Edward Burne-Jones's 1871 painting ''The Wheel of Fortune'', which Watts owned. The painting was displayed at the 1897 Manchester Jubilee Exhibition, alongside other works by Watts including ''Love and Death'', ''The Court of Death'', ''Psyche'', and ''Mount Ararat''.
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