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A Wounded Heron

Adopted by Alastair Gray OBE & Lyn Gray

Throughout his career Watts used a number of his paintings to criticise the needless killing of birds for sport and fashion. In this dramatic early work, a heron has been brought down by a falcon.

Painted when the artist was just 20 years old, this was one of Watts’s first works to be exhibited at the Royal Academy annual exhibition....

1837
Oil on canvas
91.4 x 71.1cm
COMWG.64

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