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	William Powell Frith - LoveToKnow 1911
		WILLIAM POWELL FRITH (1819-1909), English painter, was born at Aldfield, in Yorkshire, on the 9th of January 1819.
		His parents moved in 1826 to Harrogate, where his father became landlord of the Dragon Inn, and it was then that the boy began his general education at a school at Knaresborough.
		Frith died on the 2nd of November 1909.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /William_Powell_Frith (495 words)

	William Powell Frith, RA: An Overview
		Frith was born in Yorkshire; he studied painting at Sass's Academy and at the Royal Academy Schools.
		Frith did continue to paint the historical and literary subjects that he had concentrated on in the 1840s, but much more interesting are his contemporary subjects, which are always rich with anecdotal and moralistic ingredients.
		Frith exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1840 until 1902 and may be regarded as the pre-eminently "victorian" artist.
	victorian.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp /victorianweb/painting/frith/index.html (147 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/William Powell Frith
		Frith was a traditionalist who made known his aversion to modern-art developments in a couple of autobiographies – Autobiography and Reminiscences (1887) and Further Reminiscences (1888) – and other writings.
		Frith lived a curious domestic life - married to Isabelle with twelve children, whilst a mile down the road maintaining a mistress (Mary Alford, formerly his ward) and seven more children - all a marked contrast to the upright family scenes depicted in paintings like Many Happy Returns of the Day.
		Frith married Mary on the death of Isabelle in 1880.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/William_Powell_Frith (652 words)

	The Spectacle of Dress in Victorian Painting
		William Powell Frith, in his Autobiography, wrote of the difficulty involved in painting historical costume and the research it necessitated, involving many visits to the Print Room of the British Museum.
		Frith famously commented that modern dress was 'unpicturesque,' but modern dress also had major attractions for the artists: the 1850s and early 1860s was a period when women's dress, especially, was spectacular and showy, and new fashions were incorporating technological advances.
		Frith used dress, as he used physiognomy, to indicate the social and moral standing of his figures, producing a vision of a stratified, but harmonious society.
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	Victorian Art in Britain
		William Powell Frith was born in Yorkshire, where his father a self-made man had become a prosperous innkeeper in Harrogate.
		In 1863, Frith was informed by Sir Charles Eastlake, President of the Royal Academy, that the Queen wished him to paint a picture of the forthcoming wedding ceremony of her son the Prince of Wales and Princess Alexandra of Denmark.
		Mr Frith is now one of the four Honorary Retired Academicians; that is to say that he retains the honour of affixing RA to his name, has the right of sending four works to the Summer Exhibition, and possesses nearly all the privileges with none of the responsibilities of a full-blown Academician.
	www.victorianartinbritain.co.uk /biog/frith.htm (956 words)

	The archetypal Victorian hypocrite - Telegraph
		Frith is seen as important mainly for his three great panoramas, Life at the Seaside, Ramsgate Sands (1854), Derby Day (1858) and The Railway Station (1862) – each packed with plots and characters, and cramming within their frames an extraordinary sense of bustle.
		Frith's revolution happened almost by accident: sketching on holiday at Ramsgate in 1851, he sensed that groups of people were "unconsciously forming themselves into very paintable compositions", and he was struck by the variety of the human animal.
		Frith's panoramas were comforting works – the very fact that large groups of people interacted with each other to any extent was a pleasant idea to set against more insistent anxieties that alienation was in fact the keynote of industrial-age society, where man was stranger to man.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2006/12/10/bokni02.xml (877 words)

	William Powell Frith - Definition, explanation
		William Powell Frith (January 19, 1819 - November 9, 1909), was an English painter specialising in portraits and Victorian era narratives, who was elected to the Royal Academy in 1852.
		Born in Aldfield, North Yorkshire, William was encouraged to take up art by his parents who were hoteliers in Harrogate.
		Frith was a traditionalist who made known his aversion to modern-art developments in a couple of autobiographies - Autobiography and Reminiscences (1887) and Further Reminiscences (1888) - and other writings.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/w/wi/william_powell_frith.php (431 words)

	A Wealth of Detail: A Review of William Powell Frith: Painting the Victorian Age, edited by Vivien Knight and Mark Bills
		Frith explained later that the foreign-looking gentleman arguing with the cabby was based on his daughters' Italian teacher, who wished not to be recognised; he confessed to having been caught up in the conflict between catching the man's likeness and betraying him.
		Frith was proud of his meticulous research for paintings set in the past: "Customs also may be learnt from many authorities," he wrote in his autobiography; "so, with much difficulty, may dresses be studied in which our ancestors lived and moved" (1: 305).
		Frith was aware of being in the right place at the right time, capturing the public's imagination and capitalising on collectors' enthusiasm for modern pictures at mid-century.
	www.scholars.nus.edu.sg /landow/victorian/painting/frith/banerjee.html (1959 words)

	William Powell Frith
		The Railway Station by W.P. Frith R.A. William Powell Frith was born in Yorkshire in 1819 the son of domestic servants.
		Though he intended to pursue a career as an auctioneer, Frith's artistic talent was encouraged by his father and in 1835 Frith enrolled in the Henry Sass Academy in London.
		Frith was known for his every day life from modern subjects, particularly crowd scene.
	www.goodallartists.ca /william_powell_frith.htm (258 words)

	William Powell Frith RA (1819-1909)
		Frith was elected ARA in 1845, and became RA in 1853.
		Because Frith's work now seems so characteristic of the age, it tends to be on the walls of the galleries rather than in store.
		Frith's self portrait is at the National Portrait Gallery.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /speel/paint/frith.htm (353 words)

	William Powell Frith
		William Powell Frith (January 19, 1819 - November 9, 1909,was an English painter specialising inportraits and Victorian era narratives, who was elected to the Royal Academy in 1852.
		Born in Aldfield, North Yorkshire, William was encouraged to take up art by his parents whowere hoteliers in Harrogate.
		Frith was a traditionalist who made known his aversion to modern-art developments in a couple of autobiographies -Autobiography and Reminiscences (1887) and Further Reminiscences(1888) - and other writings.
	www.therfcc.org /william-powell-frith-129274.html (234 words)

	Dickens, with a paintbrush - Telegraph
		Frith achieved recognition with charming but inconsequential scenes from Shakespeare, Scott, Sterne and other writers, but his first resounding success came in 1854 when he exhibited Life at the Seaside (Ramsgate Sands) at the Royal Academy.
		Frith's late masterpiece The Road to Ruin tackles this inherent limitation of painting as compared to writing by a narrative method known to artists since William Hogarth painted The Harlot's Progress in 1731: the sequence of anecdotal pictures.
		Some of Frith's work can seem trivial, but at his best he is for me one of the original painters of the 19th century in Britain.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2006/12/05/bafrith05.xml (1172 words)

	artists illustrating boys fashions: William Powell Frith
		William Powell Frith was the son of domestic servants.
		Frith was a noted genre painter, important in that he produced pictures that encapsulated contemporary Victorian life.
		Frith's fame led to a commission from the royal family to paint a group portrait of the Prince of Wales' 1863 wedding to Danish Princess Alexandra.
	histclo.com /art/ind/art-frith.html (971 words)

	Port Sunlight / Lady Lever Art Gallery / Artists / William Powell Frith
		Frith entered the Royal Academy school in 1837, and in 1840 he exhibited there his first picture, "Malvolio Before the Countess Olivia." He quickly gained wide popularity.
		Elected associate of the Royal Academy in 1845 and a member in 1852, he established his reputation with a succession of large compositions of everyday English life, the first of which, "Ramsgate Sands" (exhibited 1854), was bought by Queen Victoria.
		Frith later turned to moralizing works exemplified by a series of five paintings under the general title "The Race for Wealth" (1880).
	www.portsunlight.org.uk /gallery/artists/frith.htm (142 words)

	The Spectacle of Dress in Victorian Painting
		The Derby, like the Royal Academy exhibition at which the painting by William Powell Frith (1819-1909) was shown, was an event that people went to in order to look at each other as much as at horses or paintings.
		The top hats of the men, for example, are swathed with coloured veils known as 'puggarees' which could be pulled down over the face to keep off dust during the journey to the race and, once there, provided protection from sun and flies.
		Frith made studies from models for all the prominent figures: he found the acrobats at Drury Lane, and they started modelling for him, but were unused to the work, so he bought their clothes from them and transferred them to professional models.
	www.fathom.com /course/10701040/session2.html (604 words)

	Harrogate Borough Council - William Powell Frith: Painting the Victorian Age
		Frith is celebrated for his great panoramas of the Victorian world, populated by numerous figures, based on his friends, family, professional models and characters that he met in the street.
		Frith enjoyed huge success and popularity in his lifetime; on six separate occasions rails had to be put up around his pictures in the Royal Academy to hold back the admiring crowds.
		Frith was a hard-working and prolific painter who knew how to exploit his success through engravings of his work, by polishing his public image and, later, by writing his memoirs.
	www.harrogate.gov.uk /immediacy-4382 (431 words)

	William Powell Frith - Encyclopedia.com
		William Powell Frith 1819-1909, English anecdotal and genre painter.
		William Powell Frith: Painting the Victorian Age is at...
		Castell, William Martin, Chief exec, Nycomed Amersham plc.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Frith-Wi.html (790 words)

	Biography for: William Powell Frith
		William Powell Frith was a painter of genre and modern life scenes.
		Frith received his artistic training at Henry Sass' Academy in London from 1835 to 1837 and at the Royal Academy Schools in 1837.
		Frith was friendly with the portrait and genre painter George Adolphus Storey, who was also a friend of JW's.
	www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk /biog/Frit_WP.htm (427 words)

	William Secord Gallery, inc. , William Powell Frith
		Frith began his career as a portrait painter, having studied at Henry Sass's Academy in London and at the Royal Academy Schools.
		Frith's popularity, however, was established with his large paintings of contemporary subjects such as "Life at the Seaside," which was purchased by Queen Victoria and "Darby Day," of 1858.
		While a watercolor, Frith's portrait of Flora Hastings exhibits a precise technique which is evident in his other work.
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	Artfacts.Net: William Powell Frith - Painting the Victorian Age
		It is more than 50 years since there was an exhibition devoted to William Powell Frith, one of the greatest British painters of the social scene since Hogarth.
		Frith (1819-1909) was a quintessential yet radical and innovative Victorian painter who enjoyed huge success and popularity - on six separate occasions rails had to be put up in front of his pictures in the Royal Academy to hold back the admiring crowds.
		These paintings are populated by numerous figures, based on his friends, family, professional models and characters that he met in the street, and remain icons of their age.
	www.artfacts.net /index.php/pageType/exhibitionInfo/exhibition/68092 (173 words)

	Grumpy Old Bookman: William Powell Frith
		Frith was a Harrogate lad, it seems, though in due course he made his home in London, where the real money was.
		And on one occasion his wife's suspicions were aroused when she saw him posting a letter in London when he was supposed to be on holiday in Brighton.
		Frith also used the opportunities to portray members of his own family and friends.
	grumpyoldbookman.blogspot.com /2007/06/william-powell-frith.html (771 words)

	William Powell Frith
		As a young man, W. Frith attended Henry Sass's academy and by 1837 he was at the centre of a close knit group of young male artists known as 'The Clique'.
		They were united by a common dissatisfaction with the Royal Academy but in later years most became highly successful Royal Academicians.
		Derby Day shot Frith to fame when exhibited at the RA in 1858.
	www.museumoflondon.org.uk /archive/exhibits/creative/artistloc/1850/1850_wFrith.html (65 words)

	Amazon.com: William Powell Frith: Painting in the Victorian Age: Books: Mark Bills,Vivien Knight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		This is mainly because of the wealth of Frith's pictures reproduced here, most in glorious color, but also because of the added clarity with which the essayists help define the painter's character by showing how it reflected two of his most important influences, William Hogarth and Charles Dickens.
		Frith’s popularity in his lifetime was unprecedented; on six separate occasions special railings had to be built at the Royal Academy to protect his paintings from an admiring public.
		This book explores Frith's place in the development of Victorian painting: the impact of his unconventional private life on his work, his relationships with Hogarth and Dickens, his influence on popular illustration, the place of costume in his paintings, his female models, his painting materials and practice, and much more.
	www.amazon.com /William-Powell-Frith-Painting-Victorian/dp/0300121903 (607 words)

	'The New Frock', William Powell Frith
		Frith vigorously protested at what he saw as the prostitution of his art for commercial purposes.
		When first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1889, Frith gave this painting the sub-title ‘Vanitas vanitatum; omnia vanitas’, or ‘Vanity of vanities; all is vanity’.
		This would imply that the artist’s intended message was exactly the opposite to that insisted upon by Leverhulme in his soap advertisements.
	www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk /ladylever/collections/thenewfrock.asp (126 words)

	Burne-Jones
		William Powell Frith, painter of Derby Day and The Railway Station, was one of the most popular and successful Victorian artists.
		A vivid and compelling picture of this reluctant artist and his times — this is the first biography of Frith in many years, drawing on the artist’s memoirs, papers and other contemporary records.
		Often regarded as the inventor of the modern life picture, Frith is revealed to be a born storyteller and an acute observer of his world, while his own domestic life was complicated in a typically Victorian way — he had a wife, a mistress and nineteen children.
	www.christopherwoodgallery.com /pages/book_detail.cfm?id=14 (164 words)

	William Powell Frith Online
		Original works by William Powell Frith available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
		William Powell Frith in the Art Renewal Center
		All images and text on this William Powell Frith page are copyright 2007 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
	www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/frith_william_powell.html (334 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: William Powell Frith: A Painter and His World: Books: Christopher Wood
		William Powell Frith was one of the most popular and most successful figures of the Victorian art world yet, until now, there has been no biography about him.
		In "William Powell Frith: A Painter and His World" art historian Christopher Wood tells the remarkable, lively and colourful life of this reluctant artist.
		As Christopher Wood shows the story of Frith's life is more than an artist's biography; it is a picture of the entire Victorian period, starring one of its greatest characters.
	www.amazon.co.uk /William-Powell-Frith-Painter-World/dp/0750938455 (585 words)

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