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William Powell Frith : painting the Victorian age / edited by Mark Bills and Vivien Knight.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Haven [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press, [2006]Copyright date: ©2006Description: xi, 180 pages : colour illustrations ; 29 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0300121903
  • 0300125186
  • 9780300121902
  • 9780300125184
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 759.2 22
LOC classification:
  • ND497.F8 W55 2006
Online resources:
Contents:
The private life of William Powell Frith / Vivien Knight -- Dickens and Frith / David Trotter -- 'The time which separates character from caricature' Frith and the influence of Hogarth / Mark Bills -- Frith and his followers: painters and illustrators of London life / Mary Cowling -- William Powell Frith's The railway station: classification and the crowd / Caroline Arscott -- The London Society magazine and the influence of William Powell Frith on modern life illustration of the early 1860s -- Alex Werner -- Frith and fashion / Edwina Ehrman -- Frith's women: William Powell Frith and the female model / Jane Sellars -- 'Very efficient as a painter': the painting practice of William Powell Frith / Sally Woodcock -- Frith's frames and the business of frame-making / Victoria Doran.
Summary: William Powell Frith (1819-1909) was the greatest British painter of the social scene since Hogarth. This book explores Frith's place in the development of Victorian painting through a series of essays which examine how his unconventional private life informed his work, and his relationship with Hogarth and Dickens.
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"In association with Guildhall Art Gallery, City of London, The Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate Museums and Arts; Harrogate Borough Council.".

Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-173) and index.

The private life of William Powell Frith / Vivien Knight -- Dickens and Frith / David Trotter -- 'The time which separates character from caricature' Frith and the influence of Hogarth / Mark Bills -- Frith and his followers: painters and illustrators of London life / Mary Cowling -- William Powell Frith's The railway station: classification and the crowd / Caroline Arscott -- The London Society magazine and the influence of William Powell Frith on modern life illustration of the early 1860s -- Alex Werner -- Frith and fashion / Edwina Ehrman -- Frith's women: William Powell Frith and the female model / Jane Sellars -- 'Very efficient as a painter': the painting practice of William Powell Frith / Sally Woodcock -- Frith's frames and the business of frame-making / Victoria Doran.

William Powell Frith (1819-1909) was the greatest British painter of the social scene since Hogarth. This book explores Frith's place in the development of Victorian painting through a series of essays which examine how his unconventional private life informed his work, and his relationship with Hogarth and Dickens.

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