Watt studied art at Gray"s School of Art, Edinburgh and the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh. He was elected to the Royal Society of Arts (Republic of South Africa ) in 1924 and received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Aberdeen in 1955.
Not to be confused with George Frederic Watts. Watt was sculpted by Henry Snell Gamley in 1912, Watt"s son Albert having been sculpted by Gamley four years previously. A bronze statue of Watt by Thomas Bayliss Huxley-Jones, made in 1942, is in Aberdeen.
Watt"s work was exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1906 to 1930.
His portrait of his mother is in the Tate Gallery"s collection. Alastair Fiddes Watt (b 1954) is also a landscape painter.
