William Powell Frith: Painting the Victorian AgeWilliam Powell Frith (1819-1909) was the greatest British painter of the social scene since Hogarth. His panoramas of nineteenth-century life broke new ground in their depiction of the diverse London crowd, and they are now icons of their age. Frith’s popularity in his lifetime was unprecedented; on six separate occasions special railings had to be built at the Royal Academy to protect his paintings from an admiring public. Derby Day and The Railway Station are nearly as well known today as a century ago, yet the artist who painted them is now neglected. This book explores Frith's place in the development of Victorian painting: the impact of his unconventional private life on his work, his relationships with Hogarth and Dickens, his influence on popular illustration, the place of costume in his paintings, his female models, his painting materials and practice, and much more. The book makes an important contribution to the literature on art in the Victorian era and to our understanding of the nineteenth century. |
Contents
The private life of William Powell Frith | 1 |
Dickens and Frith | 29 |
The line which separates character from caricature | 41 |
painters and illustrators of London life | 57 |
classification and the crowd | 79 |
The London Society magazine and the influence of William Powell Frith | 95 |
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1853 Royal Academy Albert Museum Alford Alfred Elmore Ansdell Art Gallery artist August Augustus Egg Barnaby Rudge British canvas character Charles Cissie City of London clothes colours contemporary costume critics crowd daughter depiction Derby Day Dickens Dickens's Dolly Varden drawing dress English engraving Ernest Gambart Exhibits fashion female figures Flatow frame frame-maker Frith to Miller Frith's painting genre George George Du Maurier girl Guildhall Art Gallery Henry Mayhew Hogarth Hogarthian Ibid Isabelle John John Leech ladies Leech Letter to Miller London Society magazine Marriage Mary Mary Braddon Maurier Mayhew Millais modern Museum of London National Art Library painter Panton Pembridge Villas picture popular portrait Pre-Raphaelite Private Collection Private View Queen Railway Station Road to Ruin Roberson Royal Academy Library scene Seaside Ramsgate Sands sketch social Street style Thomas Miller Victorian Vokins William Powell Frith woman women worn young
References to this book
Cities in Modernity: Representations and Productions of Metropolitan Space ... Richard Dennis No preview available - 2008 |