William Powell Frith

131 artworks

High Victorian painter

Born 1819 - Died 1909

{"Id":183,"Name":"William Powell Frith","Biography":"\u003Cstrong\u003EWILLIAM POWELL FRITH\u003C/strong\u003E was born in Yorkshire, where his father a self-made man had become a prosperous innkeeper in Harrogate. He had two brothers and a sister. It would seem that Frith senior was ambitious for his talented son, not surprisingly, given his own early life in domestic service. Contrary to comment made elsewhere, Frith\u0027s father was an affectionate parent, who had a good relationship with his son. In March 1835 Young Frith, accompanied by his father, and carrying a large portfolio of his drawings boarded the stagecoach to London. It is fascinating to record that the scheduled time for this journey was twenty four hours, just before the dawn of the railway age. Once established in London the young painter attended Sass\u0027s Academy, where he was rigorously trained in the basic techniques of panting. He later attended the Royal Academy Schools.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EFrith\u0027s early paintings were mainly historical genre. He became part of a group of slightly younger artists who called themselves \u0027The Clique.\u0027 Fellow members of this group were Richard Dadd, the fairy painter who later became insane and killed his own father, Augustus Egg, H.N. O\u0027Neil, and John Phillip.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EFrith worked diligently, and success came early. He became ARA in 1845, and a full Academician in 1852. In 1851 the painter visited Ramsgate, the result of this being the first of his famous large scale crowd scenes \u003Cu\u003ERamsgate Sands,\u003C/u\u003E which after over three years work was exhibited at the RA in 1854, and bought by Queen Victoria-Frith was a successful artist overnight. He received a large sum for the painting, but failed to keep all the rights to income from it, such as the sale of engravings. This was an error that the commercially astute painter did not repeat. Frith continued in this vein with \u003Cu\u003EDerby Day,\u003C/u\u003E 1858, \u003Cu\u003EThe Railway Station,\u003C/u\u003E 1862, and \u003Cu\u003EPrivate View at The RA,\u003C/u\u003E of 1883. These pictures form a valuable record of life in Victorian England, and must have been the result of a stupendous amount of work. Frith seems to have been drawn towards crowds in his private as well as his artistic life. He lived in Bayswater, with his wife Isabelle, with whom, unfortunate woman, he had twelve children. Not content with this the fruitful Frith established another family only a mile away with Mary Alford, with whom he ultimately had seven more children. For a considerable time Isabelle Frith was in blissful ignorance of her husband\u0027s extra mural activities. Her suspicions became aroused, however, when she saw her husband posting a letter near their home, when he was supposed to be on holiday in Brighton. Following the death of Isabelle in 1880, Frith married his mistress. If he then started yet another family with yet another woman, I have been unable to establish, but perhaps by then time had cooled his ardour! It is worth noting that the artist was a popular, genial figure, with a reputation for helping younger artists.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EIn 1863, Frith was informed by Sir Charles Eastlake, President of the Royal Academy, that the Queen wished him to paint a picture of the forthcoming wedding ceremony of her son the Prince of Wales and Princess Alexandra of Denmark. Frith duly painted the picture for a fee of three thousand pounds, and it involved more than a year\u0027s concentrated work. He had felt compelled to undertake this commission and actually charged the Queen less than he would have charged another patron. Logistically the execution of picture of the picture was a nightmare, as members of the Royal Family had problems attending their sittings due to their heavy commitments. Many of the other aristocratic sitters had the same problems in attending, caused in large part by their arrogance and stupidity. It is a pleasure note that Frith was quite capable of repaying their arrogance with like behaviour, by the simple expedient of telling them that he would have to inform the Queen of their failure to attend. This he did in a very straightforward manner! The date of the Royal Wedding was 10th March 1863, the occasion being marked with much enthusiasm and popular rejoicing.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EFrith, not surprisingly, used photographs as an aid in painting these large canvases.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EFollowing the \u003Cu\u003EPrivate View at the Royal Academy,\u003C/u\u003E in 1883 the artist\u0027s output, and, the quality of his work started to decline. Frith then started to concentrate on writing his reminiscences at considerable length - and very good they are too. He also wrote the biography of John Leech (1817-1864 humorous artistic contributor to Punch).\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Ccenter\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EA Contemporary View of W P Frith In His Seventies.\u003C/strong\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cu\u003EThe Pall Mall Gazette \u003C/u\u003E1892.\u003C/center\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EMr W. P. Frith\u0027s many admirers will be glad to learn that there is one canvas at Burlington House this year bearing his signature. It is entitled \u003Cu\u003EThe New Model,\u003C/u\u003E and will be found in gallery 1X. Mr Frith is now one of the four Honorary Retired Academicians; that is to say that he retains the honour of affixing RA to his name, has the right of sending four works to the Summer Exhibition, and possesses nearly all the privileges with none of the responsibilities of a full-blown Academician. He is the only retired member who has sent anything to the exhibition; since Mr Calder Marshall, Mr Pickersgill, and Mr George Richmond do not exhibit. Mr Frith, as everybody knows, was for at least a quarter of a century the most popular painter in this country. Of later years he has not done so much in the way of painting, but has devoted a great deal of his leisure to literary work, in the shape of an entertaining volume of reminiscences, and a life of John Leech. He is over seventy; but has nothing of old age about him beyond his years and a whitened head. \u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E William Powell Frith died in 1909.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003ESources: Various. The prime source for information about \u003Cu\u003EThe Marriage of the Prince of Wales,\u003C/u\u003E was the late Jeremy Maas\u0027s excellent book \u003Cu\u003EThe Prince of Wales\u0027s Wedding.\u003C/u\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E Source: \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.victorianartinbritain.co.uk/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EVictorian Art in Britain\u003C/a\u003E.\u003Cp\u003E","Awards":null,"HasAlbums":false,"HasPortraits":true,"HasRelationships":true,"HasArticles":false,"HasDepictedPlaces":true,"HasLetters":true,"HasLibraryItems":false,"HasProducts":false,"HasSignatures":false,"HasVideos":false,"HasMapLocations":true,"TotalArtworks":131}

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A scene from Moliere's L'Avare

1876

Oil on canvas

88.9 x 139.7 cms | 35 x 54 ^3/4 ins

Private collection

less than 1 MP

A Private View at the Royal Academy

1883

Oil on canvas

60 x 114 cms | 23 ^1/2 x 44 ^3/4 ins

The Royal Academy of Arts London | United Kingdom

2 MPs

+ 1 more

Life At The Seaside, Ramsgate Sands

1905

Oil on canvas

40 x 80 cms | 15 ^1/2 x 31 ^1/4 ins

Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum Bournemouth

less than 1 MP

The Railway Station

1862

Oil on canvas

116.7 x 256.4 cms | 45 ^3/4 x 100 ^3/4 ins

University of London - Royal Holloway Egham | United Kingdom

less than 1 MP

The Railway Station

Oil on canvas

38 x 80 cms | 14 ^3/4 x 31 ^1/4 ins

Private collection

less than 1 MP

+ 3 more

The Derby Day

1856-1858

Oil paint on canvas

1016 x 2235 cms | 400 x 879 ^3/4 ins

Tate Gallery London | United Kingdom

less than 1 MP

+ 1 more

The Sleeping Model

1853-1853

Oil on canvas

63.2 x 72.8 cms | 24 ^3/4 x 28 ^1/2 ins

Royal Academy of Arts London | United Kingdom

Credit: Richard Darsie

less than 1 MP

An Incident In tHe Life Of lady Mary Wortley Montague

1872

Oil on canvas

115 x 145.5 cms | 45 ^1/4 x 57 ^1/4 ins

Private collection

less than 1 MP

Lovers' Meeting (in an Interior of Haddon Hall)

Oil on board

20.5 x 33 cms | 8 x 12 ^3/4 ins

Fenton House - National Trust London | United Kingdom

1 MPs

Landscape with Cattle

Oil on canvas

123.8 x 182.8 cms | 48 ^1/2 x 71 ^3/4 ins

Sheffield City Art Galleries Sheffield | United Kingdom

less than 1 MP

An English Merry-Making, a Hundred Years Ago

c. 1846

Oil on canvas

24.1 x 40.6 cms | 9 ^1/4 x 15 ^3/4 ins

Victoria and Albert Museum London | United Kingdom

less than 1 MP

Monsieur Jourdain's Dancing Lesson (from Molière's 'Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme', Act II, Scene 1)

c. 1840-1850

Oil on canvas

63.5 x 76.2 cms | 25 x 30 ins

Victoria and Albert Museum London | United Kingdom

less than 1 MP

The Rivals

Oil on canvas

27 x 32 cms | 10 ^1/2 x 12 ^1/2 ins

Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council Halifax | United Kingdom

1 MPs

The Duke's Blessing

Oil on canvas

37 x 47.5 cms | 14 ^1/2 x 18 ^1/2 ins

Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council Halifax | United Kingdom

1 MPs

Mme Jourdain Discovers Her Husband at the Dinner Which He Gave to the Belle Marquise and the Count Dorante

Oil on millboard

18.4 x 23.8 cms | 7 x 9 ^1/4 ins

Manchester City Art Galleries Manchester | United Kingdom

less than 1 MP

Dolly Varden from Charles Dickens's 'Barnaby Rudge' (sketch)

1842

Oil on board

17 x 23 cms | 6 ^1/2 x 9 ins

Wolverhampton Art Gallery Wolverhampton | United Kingdom

1 MPs

Isabelle Frith, Reading

1845

Oil on panel

28 x 34.3 cms | 11 x 13 ^1/2 ins

The Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate Harrogate | United Kingdom

1 MPs

The Duel Scene from 'Twelfth Night' by William Shakespeare

1842

Oil on canvas

72 x 92 cms | 28 ^1/4 x 36 ins

Walker Art Gallery Liverpool | United Kingdom

less than 1 MP

John Knox Reproving Mary, Queen of Scots

1844

Oil on canvas

72.3 x 97.2 cms | 28 ^1/4 x 38 ^1/4 ins

Sheffield City Art Galleries Sheffield | United Kingdom

less than 1 MP

'Measuring Heights' (from Oliver Goldsmith's 'The Vicar of Wakefield')

c. 1842

Oil on panel

22.8 x 30.5 cms | 8 ^3/4 x 12 ins

Victoria and Albert Museum London | United Kingdom

less than 1 MP

The Village Pastor

1845

Oil on board

23 x 31.5 cms | 9 x 12 ^1/4 ins

Sudley House, Mossley Hill Liverpool | United Kingdom

less than 1 MP

A Scene from 'Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme'

1848

Oil on canvas

72 x 92.8 cms | 28 ^1/4 x 36 ^1/2 ins

Harris Museum and Art Gallery Preston | United Kingdom

1 MPs

Sancho Panza Tells a Tale to the Duke and Duchess (from Cervantes' 'Don Quixote')

1850

Oil on panel

20.3 x 33 cms | 7 ^3/4 x 12 ^3/4 ins

Victoria and Albert Museum London | United Kingdom

less than 1 MP

Study for 'Many Happy Returns of the Day'

1854

Oil on millboard

29 x 40.4 cms | 11 ^1/4 x 15 ^3/4 ins

York City Art Gallery York | United Kingdom

1 MPs

Lancaster Sands, Lancashire

1848

Oil on canvas

106 x 154 cms | 41 ^1/2 x 60 ^1/2 ins

Touchstones Rochdale Arts and Heritage Centre Rochdale | United Kingdom

less than 1 MP

Mr Honeywood Introduces the Bailiffs to Miss Richland as His Friends (from Oliver Goldsmith's 'The Good-Natured Man', Act III, Scene 1)

1850

Oil on canvas

71.1 x 104.2 cms | 27 ^3/4 x 41 ins

Victoria and Albert Museum London | United Kingdom

less than 1 MP

Madame Jourdain Finds Her Husband Entertaining Dorimène and Dorante (from Molière's 'Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme')

c. 1860

Oil on canvas

44.5 x 57.2 cms | 17 ^1/2 x 22 ^1/2 ins

Victoria and Albert Museum London | United Kingdom

less than 1 MP

Monsieur Jourdain Receiving His Guests (from Molière's 'Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme')

1860

Oil on canvas

31.7 x 55.9 cms | 12 ^1/4 x 22 ins

Victoria and Albert Museum London | United Kingdom

less than 1 MP

At the Opera

1855

Oil on canvas

34.9 x 45 cms | 13 ^1/2 x 17 ^1/2 ins

Harris Museum and Art Gallery Preston | United Kingdom

1 MPs

Many Happy Returns of the Day

1856

Oil on canvas

81.3 x 114.4 cms | 32 x 45 ins

The Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate Harrogate | United Kingdom

less than 1 MP

The Derby Day (sketch)

1858

Oil on canvas

28.2 x 44.8 cms | 11 x 17 ^1/2 ins

Victoria and Albert Museum London | United Kingdom

less than 1 MP

Scene from 'The Spectator'

1867

Oil on canvas

38 x 46 cms | 14 ^3/4 x 18 ins

Guildhall Art Gallery London | United Kingdom

less than 1 MP

Hugh and Dolly Varden (from the novel 'Barnaby Rudge' by Charles Dickens)

c. 1863

Oil on panel

29 x 38 cms | 11 ^1/4 x 14 ^3/4 ins

Judges' Lodgings, Lancaster Lancaster | United Kingdom

less than 1 MP

Incident in the Life of Lady Mary Wortley

1872

Oil on board

38.8 x 49.1 cms | 15 ^1/4 x 19 ^1/4 ins

Aberdeen Art Gallery Aberdeen | United Kingdom

less than 1 MP

Eastham Ferry Boat

1862

Oil on canvas

70 x 90.4 cms | 27 ^1/2 x 35 ^1/2 ins

less than 1 MP

The Marriage of the Prince of Wales

1866

Oil on canvas

154.9 x 215.9 cms | 60 ^3/4 x 85 ins

Walker Art Gallery Liverpool | United Kingdom

less than 1 MP

Before Dinner at Boswell's Lodging, 1769

1868

Oil on canvas

41 x 63 cms | 16 x 24 ^3/4 ins

Ashmolean Museum Oxford | United Kingdom

less than 1 MP

The Squire's Boxing Lesson

1860

Oil on canvas

24.3 x 40 cms | 9 ^1/2 x 15 ^1/2 ins

Manchester City Art Galleries Manchester | United Kingdom

less than 1 MP

Sketch for 'The Railway Station'

c. 1860

Oil on canvas

17.7 x 25.4 cms | 6 ^3/4 x 10 ins

University of London - Royal Holloway Egham | United Kingdom

less than 1 MP

The Railway Station

1863

Oil on canvas

41.7 x 90.7 cms | 16 ^1/4 x 35 ^1/2 ins

Leicester Museum and Art Gallery Leicester | United Kingdom

less than 1 MP

Retribution

1880

Oil on panel

32.7 x 41.2 cms | 12 ^3/4 x 16 ins

Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery Birmingham | United Kingdom

1 MPs

The Invalid

1890

Oil on board

38.1 x 45.7 cms | 15 x 17 ^3/4 ins

Newstead Abbey, Nottingham City Museums and Galleries Newstead Village | United Kingdom

less than 1 MP

Study for the Private View, 1881

1882

Oil on canvas

60 x 114 cms | 23 ^1/2 x 44 ^3/4 ins

The Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate Harrogate | United Kingdom

less than 1 MP

The Marriage of the Prince of Wales, 10 March 1863

1865

The Royal Collection of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

Credit: Richard Darsie

less than 1 MP

Poverty and Wealth

1888

Leicester Museum and Art Gallery Leicester | United Kingdom

Credit: Richard Darsie

less than 1 MP

Measuring Heights

1863

Oil on canvas

71.8 x 97.2 cms | 28 ^1/4 x 38 ^1/4 ins

Private collection

7 MPs

+ 1 more

Claude Duval

1859-1860

Oil on canvas

78 x 109 cms | 30 ^1/2 x 42 ^3/4 ins

Manchester City Art Galleries Manchester | United Kingdom

less than 1 MP

A May Day Celebration

Oil on canvas

101.6 x 142.3 cms | 40 x 56 ins

Private collection

less than 1 MP

The Witch's Trial

1848

Oil on canvas

48.2 x 76.2 cms | 18 ^3/4 x 30 ins

Private collection

less than 1 MP

+ 1 more

Study for the Last Sunday of Charles II

Oil On Canvas

48 x 28 cms | 18 ^3/4 x 11 ins

Private collection

2 MPs

Sleep

Oil on canvas

less than 1 MP

Incident in the Life of Lady Mary Wortley Montague

1872

Oil On Canvas

145 x 115 cms | 57 x 45 ^1/4 ins

Private collection

3 MPs

After the Bath

1897

Private collection

Credit: Richard Darsie

less than 1 MP

Elizabeth I and Courtiers

Oil on canvas

38.2 x 51.6 cms | 15 x 20 ^1/4 ins

Manchester City Art Galleries Manchester | United Kingdom

less than 1 MP

Coming of Age in the Olden Time

1849

Private collection

Credit: Richard Darsie

less than 1 MP

Sterne and the French Innkeeper's Daughter

Oil on canvas

36 x 27.3 cms | 14 x 10 ^1/2 ins

Ulster Museum Belfast | United Kingdom

1 MPs

The Bride of Lammermoor (from the novel by Walker Scott)

Oil on canvas

44.8 x 34.6 cms | 17 ^1/2 x 13 ^1/2 ins

Sheffield City Art Galleries Sheffield | United Kingdom

less than 1 MP

Portrait of Two Girls

Oil on canvas

27.5 x 23 cms | 10 ^3/4 x 9 ins

Astley Hall Museum and Art Gallery Chorley | United Kingdom

1 MPs

Katharina

Oil on canvas

25.4 x 20.3 cms | 10 x 7 ^3/4 ins

University of Cambridge Cambridge | United Kingdom

less than 1 MP

Sketch for Stage Coach Aventure

1750

Oil On Canvas

20 x 22 cms | 7 ^3/4 x 8 ^1/2 ins

Private collection

4 MPs

Nora Creina

1845

Oil on canvas

30.7 x 24 cms | 12 x 9 ^1/4 ins

Harris Museum and Art Gallery Preston | United Kingdom

1 MPs

Dolly Varden

1842

Oil on canvas

54.6 x 44.5 cms | 21 ^1/4 x 17 ^1/2 ins

Victoria and Albert Museum London | United Kingdom

less than 1 MP

Dolly Varden

c. 1842-9

Oil on wood

27.3 x 21.6 cms | 10 ^1/2 x 8 ^1/2 ins

Tate Gallery London | United Kingdom

1 MPs

The Artist's Son, Walter

Portrait of a Young Boy Wearing Ruff

Oil on canvas

49.2 x 38.1 cms | 19 ^1/4 x 15 ins

The Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate Harrogate | United Kingdom

1 MPs

William Powell Frith

1838

Oil on canvas

60.5 x 50.5 cms | 23 ^3/4 x 19 ^3/4 ins

National Portrait Gallery London | United Kingdom

less than 1 MP

A Boy and a Girl with Hounds

1860

Oil on canvas

91.4 x 68.6 cms | 35 ^3/4 x 27 ins

Fylde Council Town Hall Lytham Saint Annes | United Kingdom

1 MPs

Poor Maria

c. 1850

Oil on canvas

44.5 x 34.5 cms | 17 ^1/2 x 13 ^1/2 ins

The Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate Harrogate | United Kingdom

1 MPs

The Beautiful Grisette

1853

Oil on canvas

21.6 x 17.2 cms | 8 ^1/2 x 6 ^3/4 ins

Shandy Hall Coxwold | United Kingdom

1 MPs

Augustus Egg (1816–1863)

1845-1853

Oil on canvas

35 x 30 cms | 13 ^3/4 x 11 ^3/4 ins

Charles Dickens Museum London | United Kingdom

1 MPs

Othello and Desdemona

1840-1856

Oil on canvas

55.9 x 48.3 cms | 22 x 19 ins

Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge | United Kingdom

less than 1 MP

The Rejected Poet

1863

Oil on canvas

91.5 x 71 cms | 36 x 27 ^3/4 ins

Wolverhampton Art Gallery Wolverhampton | United Kingdom

1 MPs

Thomas Creswick (1811–1869)

1862

Oil on canvas

57.2 x 45.7 cms | 22 ^1/2 x 17 ^3/4 ins

Royal Academy of Arts London | United Kingdom

1 MPs

A Dream of the Future

1865

Oil on canvas

51.7 x 41.9 cms | 20 ^1/4 x 16 ^1/4 ins

The Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate Harrogate | United Kingdom

1 MPs

Annie Gambart

c. 1851

Oil on canvas

53 x 43 cms | 20 ^3/4 x 16 ^3/4 ins

The Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate Harrogate | United Kingdom

1 MPs

The Artist's Model

1856

Oil on canvas

56 x 46 cms | 22 x 18 ins

Derby Museum and Art Gallery Derby | United Kingdom

less than 1 MP

Uncle Toby and the Widow Wadman

1865

Oil on canvas

75.6 x 52.1 cms | 29 ^3/4 x 20 ^1/2 ins

Tate Gallery London | United Kingdom

less than 1 MP

Mary Elizabeth Maxwell, née Braddon

1865

Oil on canvas

91.4 x 71.8 cms | 35 ^3/4 x 28 ^1/4 ins

National Portrait Gallery London | United Kingdom

less than 1 MP

William Powell Frith

1867

Oil on canvas

61 x 46.4 cms | 24 x 18 ^1/4 ins

National Portrait Gallery London | United Kingdom

less than 1 MP

The Highwayman

1848

Oil on canvas

37.2 x 33.7 cms | 14 ^1/2 x 13 ^1/4 ins

Aberdeen Art Gallery Aberdeen | United Kingdom

less than 1 MP

Mary, Queen of Scots Bidding Farewell to France, 1561

1851

Oil on canvas

33 x 55 cms | 12 ^3/4 x 21 ^1/2 ins

Newton House - National Trust Llandeilo | United Kingdom

less than 1 MP

Prayer

1878

Oil on canvas

59 x 41.9 cms | 23 x 16 ^1/4 ins

Walker Art Gallery Liverpool | United Kingdom

less than 1 MP

A Tenby Prawn Seller

1880

Oil on canvas

87.5 x 61 cms | 34 ^1/4 x 24 ins

National Museum of Wales Cardiff | United Kingdom

1 MPs

Tenby Fisherwoman

1880

Oil on canvas

82 x 60 cms | 32 ^1/4 x 23 ^1/2 ins

Scolton Manor Museum Bethlehem | United Kingdom

1 MPs

The Toilet

1870

Oil on canvas

78.9 x 64.5 cms | 31 x 25 ^1/4 ins

Sheffield City Art Galleries Sheffield | United Kingdom

less than 1 MP

The Knight and the Maid

1868

Oil on canvas

76.5 x 62.4 cms | 30 x 24 ^1/2 ins

South Shields Museum & Art Gallery South Shields | United Kingdom

less than 1 MP

Dr Johnson (1709–1784), and Mrs Siddons (1755–1831), in Bolt Court

1887

Oil on canvas

77.7 x 60.5 cms | 30 ^1/2 x 23 ^3/4 ins

Victoria and Albert Museum London | United Kingdom

less than 1 MP

The New Frock

1889

Oil on canvas

92 x 72 cms | 36 x 28 ^1/4 ins

Lady Lever Art Gallery Bebington | United Kingdom

1 MPs

Portrait of a Young Girl (Janet Butters)

1891

Oil on canvas

48.2 x 37.4 cms | 18 ^3/4 x 14 ^1/2 ins

1 MPs

In Naples, Portrait of the Artist

1875

Oil on canvas

61.8 x 49 cms | 24 ^1/4 x 19 ^1/4 ins

1 MPs

The Marriage of the Prince and Princess of Wales (later King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra)

1878

Oil on canvas

60 x 48 cms | 23 ^1/2 x 18 ^3/4 ins

Royal London Hospital Museum London | United States

1 MPs

The New Earrings

1875

Oil on Canvas

76.2 x 109.2 cms | 30 x 42 ^3/4 ins

Private collection

3 MPs

Self Portrait at the Age of 83

1901

Oil on canvas

14 x 27.9 cms | 5 ^1/2 x 10 ^3/4 ins

Yale Centre for British Art New Haven | United States

1 MPs

The Sweetest Beggar that E'er Asked for Alms

1892

Oil on canvas

86 x 65 cms | 33 ^3/4 x 25 ^1/2 ins

Walker Art Gallery Liverpool | United Kingdom

1 MPs

Self Portrait

1883

Oil on canvas

34.5 x 29.7 cms | 13 ^1/2 x 11 ^1/2 ins

Aberdeen Art Gallery Aberdeen | United Kingdom

1 MPs

Colonel Sir William Pollitt, VD, JP, DL, Officer of Order of Leopold, Belgium, British Railway Promoter and Government Official

1896

Oil on canvas

128.5 x 102.8 cms | 50 ^1/2 x 40 ^1/4 ins

National Railway Museum, York York | United Kingdom

1 MPs

The Crossing Sweeper

1893

Oil on canvas

43.7 x 36.2 cms | 17 x 14 ^1/4 ins

Government Art Collection London | United Kingdom

1 MPs

The Miniature

1883

Oil on canvas

46.3 x 38 cms | 18 x 14 ^3/4 ins

Leicester Museum and Art Gallery Leicester | United Kingdom

less than 1 MP

Portrait of a Lady with a Fan

1885-1895

Oil on canvas

76 x 63.5 cms | 29 ^3/4 x 25 ins

The New Art Gallery Walsall Walsall | United Kingdom

1 MPs

L'adieu de Marie Stuart

The Farewell of Marie Stuart

c. 1893

Oil on canvas

30.3 x 25.3 cms | 11 ^3/4 x 9 ^3/4 ins

The Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate Harrogate | United Kingdom

1 MPs

The Family Lawyer

1857

Oil on canvas

64.8 x 66 cms | 25 ^1/2 x 25 ^3/4 ins

Private collection

1 MPs

The Little Gleaner

c. 1850

2 MPs

When we devote our youth to God, 'tis pleasing in His eyes a flower, when offered in the bud, is no vain sacrifice.

1852

Oil on canvas

93 x 73 cms | 36 ^1/2 x 28 ^1/2 ins

Private collection

less than 1 MP

+ 1 more

The Crossing Sweeper

1858

Oil on canvas

24 x 19.3 cms | 9 ^1/4 x 7 ^1/2 ins

Museum of London London | United Kingdom

less than 1 MP

The Gamekeeper's Daughter

1860

Oil on canvas

78 x 62 cms | 30 ^1/2 x 24 ^1/4 ins

Private collection

5 MPs

For Better, For Worse

1881

Private collection

Credit: Richard Darsie

less than 1 MP

22nd Cheshire Regiment of Foot Pioneer, c.1858

Oil on board

33.5 x 23 cms | 13 x 9 ins

Cheshire Military Museum Chester | United Kingdom

1 MPs

At my Window, Boulogne

1872

Oil on canvas

91.4 x 71.1 cms | 35 ^3/4 x 27 ^3/4 ins

Private collection

less than 1 MP

+ 1 more

Charles Dickens in his Study

1886

Oil on canvas

54 x 41 cms | 21 ^1/4 x 16 ins

Charles Dickens Museum London | United Kingdom

less than 1 MP

Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn Deer Shooting In Windsor Forest

Oil on canvas

123 x 101 cms | 48 ^1/4 x 39 ^3/4 ins

Private collection

less than 1 MP

Mrs. Oppenheim

Oil on canvas

1 MPs

The Trysting Place

1884

Oil on canvas

45.7 x 35.6 cms | 17 ^3/4 x 14 ins

Public collection

less than 1 MP

+ 1 more

Juliet, "O That I Were A Glove Upon That Hand"

1862-1862

Oil on canvas

76 x 63.5 cms | 29 ^3/4 x 25 ins

Public collection

less than 1 MP

+ 1 more

The Flower Seller

1871

Oil on canvas

76.5 x 63.5 cms | 30 x 25 ins

Private collection

7 MPs

Gabrielle D'Estrees

1869

Oil on Canvas

76.2 x 64.1 cms | 30 x 25 ins

Private collection

3 MPs

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English Archers: The Nineteenth Century

Oil on canvas

1 MPs

Catherine Seyton Looking from the Battlements at Loch Leven Castle

Oil on canvas

40.5 x 34.2 cms | 15 ^3/4 x 13 ^1/4 ins

Harris Museum and Art Gallery Preston | United Kingdom

1 MPs

Haddon Hall Steps, Derbyshire

Oil on canvas

127 x 101.5 cms | 50 x 39 ^3/4 ins

Derby Museum and Art Gallery Derby | United Kingdom

less than 1 MP

Bianca

Oil on canvas

25.4 x 20.3 cms | 10 x 7 ^3/4 ins

University of Cambridge Cambridge | United Kingdom

less than 1 MP

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The Signal

1853-1853

Oil on canvas

43 x 36 cms | 16 ^3/4 x 14 ins

Public collection

3 MPs

The Ardour

Oil on canvas

61 x 51 cms | 24 x 20 ins

Private collection

less than 1 MP

A Royal Princess

Oil on canvas

66 x 55.9 cms | 25 ^3/4 x 22 ins

Glasgow Museums Resource Centre Glasgow | United Kingdom

less than 1 MP

The Lovers

Oil on board

23 x 21 cms | 9 x 8 ^1/4 ins

Private collection

less than 1 MP

Isabelle Frith Reclining

1867

Oil On Board

38.1 x 28.2 cms | 15 x 11 ins

Private collection

3 MPs

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William Powell Frith

Credit: Richard Darsie

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Portrait of a Young Boy Wearing Ruff

The Farewell of Marie Stuart

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