Yep. Thanks to one of your links, i Just spent a good while checking out the artist watts
https://www.theartstory.org/artist/watts-george-frederic/
He was a precursor to painters like Odilon Redon, one of my favorite artists for his dreamlike qualities in his paintings and wild colors and symbolism- seemingly hallucinatory in nature. Several of Watts paintings reminded me of his.
That particular one has been a longtime favorite of mine, I think it was one of the works in “Fantastic Paintings”, a softbound obscurity I picked up from a remainder table, uh, hmm, 40 years ago? Years later I wound up buying a used copy because some art student ‘borrowed’ mine and wouldn’t return it. :^)
Another big fave is Arcimboldo ‘the Marvelous’.
https://giuseppe-arcimboldo.org/
Despite being a realitic representational artist, he’s the godfather of trompe l’oeil, plus foreshadowed most of the artisitic movements of the 20th century — surrealism, dadaism, dogs playing poker...