William Powell Frith: The People's Painter Green Richard
William Powell Frith: The People's Painter Green Richard William Powell Frith (1819-1909), famous for his picture The Derby Day which normally hangs at Tate Britain, was the most celebrated painter…
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William Powell Frith: The People's Painter Green Richard
William Powell Frith (1819-1909), famous for his picture The Derby Day which normally hangs at Tate Britain, was the most celebrated painter of modern-life subjects in mid-Victorian England and the most popular British artist of that time. This provides a starting point for investigations, drawing on much new and original material, of three of Frith's Published to mark the bicentenary of his birth and in association with an exhibition at the Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate, this richly illustrated volume of essays offers fresh and fascinating perspectives on Frith's career and context.Despite dramatic shifts in taste with regard to Victorian painting during subsequent generations, Frith's name has never been eclipsed, let alone forgotten - unlike those of most of his genre-painter contemporaries - as an introductory survey of critical responses to the artist's work reveals.