Factfile: Compton Pottery
▪ The Compton Pottery was founded by Mary Seton Watts (1848-1938), the second wife of the Victorian painter George Frederic Watts. Together they opened the Watts Gallery in the Surrey village of Compton in 1904, designed in the Arts & Crafts style as a “simple and rural type of building”.
▪ Seton Watts was a talented artist and the founder of the Compton Pottery Arts Guild, selling terra…