My autobiography and reminiscences
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My autobiography and reminiscences
（Cambridge library collection, . Art and architecture）
Cambridge University Press, 2012
- v. 1 : pbk
- v. 2 : pbk
- v. 3 : pbk
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Reprint. Originally published: London : R. Bentley, 1887-1888
Description and Table of Contents
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v. 1 : pbk ISBN 9781108051811
Description
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. Volume 1 covers his childhood, training, friendships with Dickens and others, and the phenomenal success of his first crowd scenes, up to and including The Marriage of the Prince of Wales (1865).
Table of Contents
- 1. Early days
- 2. My future destiny discussed
- 3. My career determined
- 4. The school of art
- 5. The life school
- 6. Practice in portrait-painting
- 7. 'Posting' from Harrogate to London
- 8. First attempts at subject-pictures
- 9. My first success
- 10. Elected an associate
- 11. The Old English Merrymaking
- 12. Dinner-party at Lord Northwick's
- 13. On subjects
- 14. Picture-seeing in Belgium and Holland
- 15. Service of art in detection of crime
- 16. The Coming of Age
- 17. Subjects from Goldsmith, Smollett, and Moliere
- 18. The hanging committee
- 19. Hanging reminiscences
- 20. Ramsgate Sands
- 21. The Derby Day
- 22. Portrait of Charles Dickens
- 23. Success of The Railway Station
- 24. The Marriage of the Prince of Wales
- 25. The great actors of my youth.
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v. 2 : pbk ISBN 9781108051828
Description
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).
Table of Contents
- 1. The Salon d'Or
- 2. Rejected subjects
- 3. The pious model
- 4. Visit to Italy
- 5. The bearded model
- 6. The Road to Ruin
- 7. The Fonthill story
- 8. The Race for Wealth
- 9. A mysterious sitter
- 10. John Forster and the portrait of Charles Dickens
- 11. Second visit to the Low Countries
- 12. The doctor's story
- 13. For Better, For Worse
- 14. Models - thievish
- 15. 'Old Masters'
- 16. A successful dealer
- 17. A strange adventure
- 18. Men-servants
- 19. The Private View
- 20. Dr Doran
- 21. My later professional work
- 22. A strange purchase
- 23. The crazy artist
- 24. John Leech
- 25. A ghost story
- 26. The story of my portrait
- 27. Jenny Lind, Mr Barnum, and others
- 28. Lady artists
- 29. People I have known.
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v. 3 : pbk ISBN 9781108051835
Description
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 particular, Volume 3 records the breakdown of the talented Richard Dadd, Frith's admiration for Daniel Maclise, John Tenniel and George du Maurier, and reflections on the vagaries of fashions in art.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Great names and the value of them
- 2. Prelude to correspondence
- 3. Early correspondence
- 4. Asylum experiences
- 5. Anecdotes - various
- 6. An over-true tale
- 7. Scraps
- 8. A Yorkshire blunder, and scraps continued
- 9. Richard Dadd
- 10. An old-fashioned patron
- 11. Another dinner at Ivy Cottage
- 12. Charles Dickens
- 13. Sir Edwin Landseer
- 14. George Augustus Sala
- 15. John Leech
- 16. Shirley Brooks
- 17. Admiration
- 18. On self-delusion and other matters
- 19. Fashion in art
- 20. A story of a snowy night
- 21. English art and French influence
- 22. Ignorance of art
- 23. Oratory
- 24. Supposititious pictures
- 25. A variety of letters from various people
- 26. Mrs Maxwell
- 27. Book illustrators
- 28. More people whom I have known
- Index.
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