Nicholas Tromans is curator at Watts Gallery. He has published widely on nineteenth-century British art, including the acclaimed Richard Dadd: The Artist and the Asylum.
Watts's pictures ... contain the half-stifled secrets that their era tried to suppress ... disturbingly fresh. * The Times * Tromans ... offers a frank, fair and ultimately endearing overview of Watts' curious career and the complexities of his personality whilst conjuring a lively picture of the cultural, social and political climate. * Art Quarterly *