Artist
William Powell Frith
English, 1819–1909
William Powell Frith was an English Realism painter. 17 works are cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum, most of them oil paintings. William Powell Frith was born in Aldfield.
William Powell Frith 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. He has been described as the "greatest British painter of the social scene since Hogarth".
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