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William Powell Frith BiographyEnglish painter |
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WILLIAM POWELL FRITH
was born in Yorkshire, where his father a self-made man had become a prosperous
innkeeper in Harrogate. He had two brothers and a sister. Once established in London the young painter
attended Sass's Academy, where William
Powell Frith was rigorously trained in the
basic techniques of panting. He later attended the Royal
Academy Schools. |
William Powell Frith, not surprisingly, used photographs as
an aid in painting these large canvases. Following the Private View at the Royal Academy, in 1883 the artist's output, and, the quality of William Powell Frith painting started to decline. The painter then started to concentrate on writing his reminiscences at considerable length - and very good they are too. William Powell Frith also wrote the biography of John Leech (1817-1864 humorous artistic contributor to Punch). |
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His many admirers will be glad to learn that there is one canvas at Burlington House this year bearing his signature. It is entitled The New Model, and will be found in gallery 1X. Mr William Powell Frith is now one of the four Honorary Retired Academicians; that is to say that the artist retains the honor of affixing RA to his name, has the right of sending four William Powell Frith paintings to the Summer Exhibition, and possesses nearly all the privileges with none of the responsibilities of a full-blown Academician. William Powell Frith is the only retired member who has sent anything to the exhibition; since Mr Calder Marshall, Mr Pickersgill, and Mr George Richmond do not exhibit. |
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William Powell Frith, as everybody knows, was for
at least a quarter of a century the most popular painter in this country. Of
later years the artist has not done
so much in the way of painting, but has
devoted a great deal of his leisure to
literary painting, in the shape of an
entertaining volume of reminiscences, and a
life of John Leech. William Powell Frith is over seventy; but
has nothing of old age about him beyond his
years and a whitened head. William Powell Frith died in 1909. |
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