George Fiddes Watt

George Fiddes Watt (15 February 1873 – 22 November 1960) was a Scottish portrait painter and engraver.

Life Watt was born on 15 February 1873 in Aberdeen. He studied art at Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen and the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh. He was elected to the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) in 1924 and received an honorary LL.D. degree from the University of Aberdeen in 1955. A bronze statue of Watt by Thomas Bayliss Huxley-Jones, made in 1942, is in Aberdeen.

His third son, Alexander Stuart Watt (1909–1967) was a journalist based in Paris. Alastair Fiddes Watt (born 1954) is also a landscape painter. An exception among the many portraits is a landscape, J. P. Inverarity Mauled by a Lioness, Somaliland .

Portraits

Lawyers Viscount Haldane (Lincoln's Inn) Divines William Paterson Paterson

Scientists Sir J. J. Thomson (Royal Society) Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon Sir William Slater Brown, Lord Provost of Edinburgh

Academics Thomas Martin Lindsay

Mezzotint engravings

Robert Bannatyne Finlay (Royal Courts of Justice)