WILLIAM POWELL FRITH RA (1819-1909) Biography

Provenance

Christie's, 4th May 1889, lot 139;
James B. Andrews (1951)

Literature

Blackburn, H., Academy Notes, page 1, illustrated plate 23
Royal Academy Illustrated, 1888, page 16
Art Journal, 1888, page 181
Punch, 14th July 1888, page 16
Mark Bills and Vivien Knight, William Powell Frith, Painting in the Victorian Age, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2006, illustrated pages 56, plate 58 (detail) and 69, plate 66

Exhibition History

The Royal Academy, 1888, number 26

Description / Expertise

Typical of the London street scenes that Frith painted, the subject’s interpretation depends upon minutely observed incident and detail.

There exists a smaller version of the same subject dated 1880, (Exhibited Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, William Powell Frith, 1951, no. 43.)