Frith, William Powell

Related Category: European Art, 1600 to the Present: Biographies

1819–1909, English anecdotal and genre painter. His early paintings were illustrations, such as his Scene from a Sentimental Journey (Victoria and Albert Mus.). Later he painted many enormously popular pictures of everyday English life, among them Derby Day (National Gall., London) and The Railway Station (Leicester Mus.).

See his memoirs, A Victorian Canvas (1957).