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My Autobiography and Reminiscences (Paperback)
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My Autobiography and Reminiscences (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Art and Architecture, Volume 2
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The celebrated Victorian narrative painter William Powell Frith
(1819-1909) was a born raconteur. His two-volume autobiography of
1887 ran to three editions in the same year. The third edition is
reissued here, together with its supplementary volume of 1888.
Frith was an ideal commentator on his age. He never lost his early
interest in literary and historical subjects, and moved in the
highest artistic and literary circles. Yet he also saw himself as a
man of the people. His most famous works were his 'modern-life'
panoramas, Ramsgate Sands (1854), Derby Day (1858) and The Railway
Station (1862). Discussing such projects, he reflects on everything
from costume to portraiture, art dealers to female artists, and
even picture frames. In Volume, 2 Frith discusses his Hogarthian
subjects, 'Dickens and his Beard' (the story behind the famous
portrait), and his last great crowd scene, A Private View at the
Royal Academy (1883).
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