William Powell Frith RA (9 January 1819 – 2 November 1909) was an English painter [1] specialising in genre subjects and panoramic narrative works of life in the Victorian era.

Mr Frith, as everybody knows, was for at least a quarter of a century the most popular painter in this country. Of later years he has not done so much in the way of painting, but has devoted a great deal of his leisure to literary work, in the shape of an entertaining volume of reminiscences, and a life of John Leech.

A Private View at the Royal Academy, 1881 is a painting by the English artist William Powell Frith exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in London in 1883.

William Powell Frith RA (9 January 1819 – 2 November 1909) was an English painter specialising in genre subjects and panoramic narrative works of life in the Victorian era. He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1853, presenting The Sleeping Model as his Diploma work.

William Powell Frith was an English painter famous for his crowded scenes of contemporary English life, executed with a preciseness of technique akin to that of the Pre-Raphaelites. Frith entered the Royal Academy school in 1837, and in 1840 he exhibited there his first picture, Malvolio Before the

William Powell Frith (English, 1819–1909) Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

Frith's My Autobiography and Reminiscences (1887) and Further Reminiscences (1888) give lively accounts of the art world of his time. His reputation sank after his death but greatly revived as part of the general re-evaluation of Victorian art after the Second World War.

2021年1月20日 · William Powell Frith was one of the most popular and successful artists of the Victorian era. His works fell out of fashion after his death, but have had a resurgence in popularity since the 1950s. Today he is one of the most searched for artists on Art UK. Frith was born on 9th January 1819 in Aldfield, near Ripon in Yorkshire.

William Powell Frith RA was an English painter specialising in genre subjects and panoramic narrative works of life in the Victorian era. He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1853, presenting...

illiam Powell Frith’s long life of ninety years spanned the period in which ‘being an artist’ changed from a labourers’ job, not far different from that of a house painter, to a position which brought not only gentlemanly wealth and status, but the possibility of being enobled by the Queen.