Biography of William Powell Frith and Oil Painting

The copyright of scripts in this website is owned by Favorite Oil Painting Studio. Favorite Oil Painting Studio will take appropriate legal action in the piracy and infringements of copyright. Here are Monet, da Vinci paintings, Van Gogh paintings, Dali, Picasso, Rembrandt, Jack Vettriano paintings, Paul Klee paintings, Paul Cézanne paintings, John Constable paintings, Edward Hopper paintings, Thomas Kinkade paintings.

William Powell Frith
English painter
born 1819 - died 1909

Teacher of: Frederick Tayler (1802-1889).
Employer of: William Maw Egley (1826-1916).



Member of: The Clique.

WILLIAM POWELL FRITH 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's 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's Academy, where he was rigorously trained in the basic techniques of panting. He later attended the Royal Academy Schools.

William Powell Frith died in 1909.

Buy oil painting by William Powell Frith