Frith, William Powell, 1819-1909, English anecdotal and genre painter. His early paintings were illustrations, such as his
Scene from a Sentimental Journey (Victoria and Albert Mus.). Later he painted many enormously popular pictures of everyday English life, among them
Derby Day (National Gall., London) and
The Railway Station (Leicester Mus.).
See his memoirs, A Victorian Canvas (1957).
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