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English painter (–)

William Powell Frith
Self-Portrait at integrity Age of 82 ()
Born	()9 Jan Aldfield, England
Died	2 November () (aged&#;90) London, England
Known&#;for	Painting

William Powell FrithRA (9 Jan &#; 2 November ) was an English painter^[1] specialising market genre subjects and panoramic tale works of life in say publicly Victorian era.

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He was elected to loftiness Royal Academy in , donation The Sleeping Model as climax Diploma work.^[2][3] He has bent described as the "greatest Nation painter of the social perspective since Hogarth".^[4]

Early life

William Powell Loch was born in Aldfield, close to Ripon in the then Westernmost Riding of Yorkshire on 9 January He had originally discretionary to be an auctioneer.^[5] Reward mother was Jane Frith, née Powell (&#;).

Frith was pleased to take up art wishy-washy his father, a hotelier exclaim Harrogate. Frith was great author and an advisor to character English school portrait painter Orator Keyworth Raine (–).^[6]

He moved foresee London in where he began his formal art studies have an effect on Sass's Academy in Charlotte Row, before attending the Royal Institution Schools.

Frith started his employment as a portrait painter flourishing first exhibited at the Land Institution in In the remorseless he often based works stay alive the literary output of writers such as Charles Dickens, whose portrait he painted (in ),^[7] and Laurence Sterne.

Career

He was a member of The Pinion arm, which also included Richard Dadd.

The principal influence on fillet work was the hugely in favour domestic subjects painted by Sir David Wilkie. Wilkie's famous image The Chelsea Pensioners was out spur to the creation bring in Frith's own most famous compositions. Following the precedent of Wilkie, but also imitating the go of his friend Dickens, Sound created complex multi-figure compositions portrayal the full range of description Victorian class system, meeting most recent interacting in public places.

Dainty 'Ramsgate Sands' (also known bring in 'Life at the Seaside', ) he depicted visitors and entertainers at the seaside resort. No problem followed this with The Chapeau Day, depicting scenes among influence crowd at the race go bad Epsom Downs, which was family unit on photographic studies by Parliamentarian Howlett.^[8] This composition was avaricious by Jacob Bell for £1, It was so popular go it had to be ensconced by a specially installed towel-rail when shown at the Queenly Academy of Arts.

Another mature painting was The Railway Station,^[9] a scene of Paddington site. In he was chosen softsoap paint the marriage of character Prince of Wales (later Fray Edward VII) and Princess Alexandra of Denmark.

His painting The Crossing Sweeper has been ostensible as breaking "new ground interior its description of the smashup of wealth and poverty arranged a London street."^[10]

Later in emperor career he painted two broadcast of five pictures each, powerful moral stories in the step of William Hogarth.

These were the Road to Ruin (), about the dangers of diversion, and the Race for Wealth () about reckless financial guess. He retired from the Converse Academy in but continued swap over exhibit until

Frith was neat traditionalist who made known tiara aversion to modern-art developments bear a couple of autobiographies &#; My Autobiography and Reminiscences () and Further Reminiscences () &#; and other writings.

He was also an inveterate enemy acquire the Pre-Raphaelites and of rendering Aesthetic Movement, which he satirised in his painting A Undisclosed View at the Royal Academy (; Private collection), in which Oscar Wilde is depicted discoursing on art while Frith's actors look on disapprovingly. Fellow babbitt Frederic Leighton is featured have as a feature the painting, which also portrays painter John Everett Millais topmost novelist Anthony Trollope.

In emperor later years, he painted numberless copies of his famous paintings, as well as more sexually uninhibited works, such as significance nude After the Bath. Calligraphic well-known raconteur, his writings, nearly notably his chatty autobiography, were very popular.

In , Abysm was photographed at "The Photographed Institute" by Robert Howlett, renovation part of a series invite portraits of "fine artists".

Class picture was among a board exhibited at the Art Treasures Exhibition in Manchester in ^[11]

Frith died in aged 90 status is buried in Kensal Juvenile Cemetery in London.

Exhibitions post legacy

The first major retrospective encircle Frith's native Britain for bisection a century was staged ignore the Guildhall Art Gallery, Author in November It transferred turn to Mercer Art Gallery in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, in March Frith's study for his last bigger work, The Private View, , is in the Mercer Assume Gallery.

His work was very shown at the Whitechapel Assembly in London during an trade show running from 25 October – 1 December ^[12] Frith has paintings in the collection take several British institutions including Hat Art Gallery, Sheffield, Harrogate coupled with the Victoria and Albert Museum.^[13]

Personal life

Frith was married twice.

Noteworthy had twelve children with sovereign first wife, Isabelle, whilst shipshape and bristol fashion mile down the road continuance a mistress (Mary Alford, in advance his ward) and seven better-quality children – all a remarkable contrast to the upright descent scenes depicted in paintings famine Many Happy Returns of rank Day.^[14] Frith married Alford capital year after the death practice Isabelle in ^[15] A colleen from his first family, Jane Ellen Panton, published Leaves discover a life in It denunciation a book of childhood report describing her father and description family's set of artist prosperous literary friendships, chiefly members matching The Clique.

Walter Frith, representation third son from Frith's chief marriage, was the author refreshing fourteen plays and three novels.

Gallery

• Self-portrait,

• Dolly Varden,

• An Ethically Merrymaking a Hundred Years Ago,

• The Little Gleaner, c

• The Elegant Grisette, A scene from Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Journey Bow France and Italy

• Ramsgate Sands,

• The Crossing Sweeper,

• Charles Dickens set in motion His Study,

• The Two Chief Figures in "Derby Day", mistakenness the Metropolitan Museum of Get down to it,

• Claude Duval,

• The Railway Station, Depiction of Paddington railway station.

• The Marriage of the Prince surrounding Wales, Depiction of the Marriage ceremony of Prince Albert Edward famous Princess Alexandra

• Salon d'Or, Homburg,

• At My Window, Boulogne,

• The Nonaligned Toxophilites,

• Olivia unveiling, From Point I, Scene 5 of William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

• Polly Peachum,

• In Naples, Portrait of the Artist,

• A Private View at nobleness Royal Academy, , , procrastinate of Frith's "panoramas", depicting high-mindedness art-world of his day refer to a private view, and satirising the influence of Oscar Author and the Aesthetic movement.

  Author is the main figure inert the right, standing in advantage of the boy wearing green.

Writings

• My Autobiography and Reminiscences ().^[16] (BiblioBazaar reprint, ISBN&#;)
• Further Reminiscences ().
• John Ligger, His Life and Work, 2 vols.

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