See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM See also:POWELL See also:FRITH (1818-19og)
, See also:English painter, was See also:born at Aldfield, in See also:Yorkshire, on the 9th of See also:January 1819
.
His parents moved in 1826 to See also:Harrogate, where his See also:father became landlord of the See also:Dragon See also:Inn, and it was then that the boy began his See also:general See also:education at a school at See also:Knaresborough
.
Later he went for about two years to a school at St See also:Margaret's, near See also:Dover, where he was placed specially under the direction of the See also:drawing-See also:master, as a step towards his preparation for the profession which his father had decided on as the one that he wished him to adopt
.
In 1835 he was entered as a student in the well-known See also:art school kept by See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry Sass in Bloomsbury, from which he passed after two years to the Royal See also:Academy See also:schools
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His first See also:independent experience was gained in 1839, when he went about for some months in See also:Lincolnshire executing several commissions for portraits; but he soon began to See also:attempt compositions, and in 1840 his first picture, " Malvolio, See also:cross-gartered before the Countess Olivia," appeared at the Royal Academy
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During the next few years he produced several notable paintings, among them " See also:Squire See also:Thornhill See also:relating his See also:town adventures to the See also:Vicar's See also:family," and " The See also:Village Pastor," which established his reputation as one of the most promising of the younger men of that See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time
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This last See also:work was exhibited in 1845, and in the autumn of that See also:year he was elected an See also:Associate of the Royal Academy
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His promotion to the See also:rank of Academician followed in 18J3, when he was chosen to fill the vacancy caused by See also:Turner's See also:death
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The See also:chief pictures painted by him during his See also:tenure of Associateship were: " An English Merry-making in the Olden Time," " Old Woman accused of See also:Witchcraft," " The Coming of See also:Age," " Sancho and See also:Don Quixote," " See also:Hogarth before the See also:Governor of See also:Calais," and the "See also:Scene from See also:Goldsmith's ` See also:Good-natured See also:Man,' " which was commissioned in 185o by Mr See also:Sheepshanks, and bequeathed by him to the See also:South See also:Kensington Museum
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Then came a See also:succession of large compositions which gained for the artist an extraordinary popularity
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" See also:Life at the Seaside," better known as " See also:Ramsgate Sands," was exhibited in 18J4, and was bought by See also:Queen See also:Victoria; " The See also:Derby See also:Day," in 1858; " See also:Claude See also:Duval," in 186o; " The Railway Station," in 1862; " The See also:Marriage of the See also:Prince of See also:Wales," painted for Queen Victoria, in 1865; " The Last See also:Sunday of See also:Charles II.," in 1867; " The See also:Salon d'Or," in 1871; " The Road to Ruin," a See also:series, in 1878; a similar series, " The See also:Race for See also:Wealth," shown at a See also:gallery in See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King See also:Street, St See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James's, in 188o; " The Private View," in 1883; and " See also:John See also:Knox at Holyrood," in1886
.
See also:Frith also painted a considerable number of portraits of well-known See also:people
.
In 1889 he became an honorary retired academician
.
His " Derby Day " is in the See also:National Gallery of See also:British Art
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In his youth, in See also:common with the men by whom he was surrounded, he had leanings towards See also:romance, and he scored many successes as a painter of imaginative subjects
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In these he proved himself to be possessed of exceptional qualities as a colourist and manipulator, qualities that promised to See also:earn for him a secure See also:place among the best executants of the British School
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But in his See also:middle See also:period he See also:chose a fresh direction
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Fascinated by the welcome which the public gave to his first attempts to illustrate the life of his own times, he undertook a considerable series of large canvases, in which he commented on the See also:manners and morals of society as he found it
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He became a pictorial preacher, a painter who moralized about the everyday incidents of See also:modern existence; and he sacrificed some of his technical variety
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There remained, however, a remarkable sense of characterization, and an acute appreciation of dramatic effect
.
Frith died on the 2nd of See also:November 1909
.
Frith published his Autobiography and Reminiscences in 1887, and Further Reminiscences in 1889
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