| The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07. |
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| Frith, William Powell |
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| 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.). | 1 | | See his memoirs, A Victorian Canvas (1957). | 2 |
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