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Description: | William Powell Frith was a leading Victorian painter, famous for his crowded scenes bustling with people and activity. His most famous painting, 'Derby Day' is notoriously the first painting to be so popular at the Royal Academy summer exhibition that it had a barrier put around it to prevent overzealous visitors touching it! Frith's ability to capture subtle nuances of human behaviour were unsurpassed; his crowd scenes include every aspect of Victorian society; from the aristocratic lady reclining in a chaise to the beggars stealing food.
Oil painting showing an opulent domestic interior. A man, wearing a wig and black clothes, is seated looking dejected. A well dressed woman is standing near to him smiling. |
License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ |
Publisher: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service |
Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service |
Subjects: | Fine arts Men Oil painting Women Oil Paintings Poets Adults Poetry Victorian period Interiors Wigs Paintings Narrative painting Dresses English poetry People Art collections |
Temporal: | 1863
Victorian (1837-1901) |
Source: | Black Country History |
Creator: | FRITH; William Powell (1819 - 1909) |
Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... |
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