[Vwoolf] G.E. Watts Bequest to Adrian Stephen

[Stuart N. Clarke]

Annie Prinsep was a niece of Henry Thoby Prinsep and Sara Prinsep (née Pattle; “Little Holland House”), the sister of Maria Jackson, VW’s maternal grandmother:

Anne Mary Prinsep (Annie)
Born Calcutta 1848; died Ryde, Isle of Wight 1932. Annie cared for her Uncle Thoby and Aunt Sara until their deaths, living at their home in Freshwater, and then with her sisters Louisa and May before establishing her own home at Ryde. Annie was close friends with Julia Margaret Cameron, Alfred Tennyson and George Frederick Watts ...

http://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/p290761/html/Text/bsketches.xhtml?referer=236&page=5#toc_marker-6

Stuart
(Day 124)
“Time is a strange thing.
When one lives heedlessly, time means nothing.
But then suddenly, one is aware of nothing else.”
(“Die Zeit die ist ein sonderbar Ding”, usw, sings the Marschallin in “Der Rosenkavalier”, towards the end of Act I)


From: Danell Jones via Vwoolf 
Sent: Saturday, July 18, 2020 8:21 PM
To: vwoolf at lists.osu.edu 
Subject: [Vwoolf] G.E. Watts Bequest to Adrian Stephen

So, I happened upon an article in the Daily Telegraph  Courier, Tuesday, 6 June, 1905, p. 7, that lists Adrian Leslie Stephen as a recipient of a one-thousand pound bequest from G.E. Watts. 

 

This bequest is not mentioned in Jean McGibbon’s bio (nor, I think in any other source, but I haven’t don’t an extensive search.) 

 

As far as I can tell, Virginia, Thoby, and Vanessa received nothing. George Duckworth got Watt’s portrait of Julia, and “Miss Annie Prinsep” also received a thousand points. (Is this a cousin of the Stephens?)

 

There is a portrait of Adrian as a schoolboy that Watts did (included in McGibbon’s bio).

 

A thousand pounds is quite a substantial sum. (Also worth noting, Watts only leaves his cook and housekeeper 150 pounds each). 

 

So, why Adrian?

 

I’d love to hear your thoughts!

 

Danell
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