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William Powell Frith: The People's Painter

William Powell Frith: The People's Painter

by Jane Sellars (Editor), Richard Green (Author)

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Synopsis

William Powell Frith (1819-1909) was the most celebrated painter of modern-life subjects in mid-Victorian England and the most popular British artist of that time. Published to mark the bicentenary of his birth and in association with an exhibition at the Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate, this volume of essays offers fresh perspectives on three of Frith's great panoramas of the Victorian scene - Life at the Seaside (Ramsgate Sands), The Derby Day and The Private View at the Royal Academy. They are introduced by a survey of contemporary and later responses to Frith's paintings. Further contributions explore important but hitherto neglected aspects of the artist's life, work and influence. These range from Frith's connections with Yorkshire (the county of his birth) and his circle of women friends to the key role played by the print trade in the popularisation of his images and their re-creation as tableaux on the London stage.

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Format: Illustrated
 Pages: 192
 Publisher: Philip Wilson Publishers
Published: 13 Jun 2019
ISBN 10: 1781300917
ISBN 13: 9781781300916
Book Overview: The most celebrated visual chronicler of the mid-Victorian scene, this highly illustrated book provides fresh assessments of William Powell Frith's life and work

Author Bio
Richard Green FSA, formerly Curator of York Art Gallery, is an independent art historian, critic and consultant, with a special interest in British art from c.1750 to c.1900. He has written on artists ranging from Paul Sandby through William Etty to Albert Moore, and contributed many reviews of exhibitions and books to the Burlington Magazine. He is an Honorary Visiting Fellow in the Department of History of Art, University of York. Jane Sellars MBE is a freelance art historian, exhibition curator and specialist on the work of women artists. She was co-curator of the exhibition William Powell Frith: Painting the Victorian Age (2007), and curator of Atkinson Grimshaw: Painter of Moonlight (2011), and Art and Yorkshire: From Turner to Hockney (2014), held at the Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate, where she was Curator of Cultural Services from 2003 to 2018.