The Messenger by George Frederic Watts (1817)

Painting of a reclining man on a couch with a standing veiled woman holding a child, surrounded by a violin, book and globe.

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A painting titled The Messenger by George Frederic Watts, dated 1817, shows a reclining man in a yellow and red garment resting on a couch while a veiled woman in dark red robes stands behind him holding a small child. Scattered in the foreground are a violin, an open book, a celestial globe, a palette and a wooden mallet, suggesting a studio or scholar's setting.

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1817

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Wikimedia Commons

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Public domain