2-708-841 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Sundial in the Garden at Limnerslease, and Portrait of G. F. Watts, Esq., R.A.', c1890s, (1902). The British painter and sculptor George Frederic Watts (1817-1904) sitting in the garden of his house near Compton in Surrey. He named it Limnerslease, a combination of the words 'limner' or artist, and 'leasen' from the Old English, meaning glean. From "The English Illustrated Magazine", Volume XXVII, April to September 1902. [T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1902]