American Colonial Era Painter, active 1670-ca.1680 Related Paintings of The Freake Limner :. | Some Horses | Arab or Arabic people and life. Orientalism oil paintings 184 | Polonia | St Anne Altarpiece sg | Ruby, gold and malachite | Related Artists:
Clare GeorgeBritish
1860-1900
Francesco ColemanItalian, 1851-1918
William Powell FrithEnglish Painter, 1819-1909
His parents were in domestic employment before taking a hotel in Harrogate in 1826. They encouraged him to become an artist, despite his own desire to be an auctioneer. While at school in Dover, Frith sketched caricatures and copies of Dutch genre scenes (Dover Mus.) that betray his disposition to narratives. His taste did not accord with the academic training he received at Henry Sass's Academy in London (1835-7) and at the Royal Academy Schools (1837). Frith began his career as a portrait painter, using members of his family as models. He first exhibited at the British Institution in 1838, and during the 1840s he established himself with his entertaining historical and literary subjects in the popular tradition of C. R. Leslie, William Mulready and Sir David Wilkie. He was a member of THE CLIQUE, which included Richard Dadd, Augustus Egg, Henry O'Neil and John Phillip.