An English Merrymaking a Hundred Years Ago
| An English Merrymaking a Hundred Years Ago | |
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| Artist | William Powell Frith |
| Year | 1847 |
| Type | Oil on canvas, genre painting |
| Dimensions | 113 cm × 185.5 cm (44 in × 73.0 in) |
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An English Merrymaking a Hundred Years Ago is an 1847 genre painting by the British artist William Powell Frith.[1][2] During the early stages of his career Frith was a member of The Clique artistic group. He later became known for his panoramic crowd scenes The Derby Day and The Railway Station.
The work depicts a day of festivities in an English village in the mid-eighteenth century. It was one of several paintings that cemented Frith's growing reputation.[3] It was exhibited at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition of 1847 at the National Gallery. An oil sketch for the painting is now in the Victoria and Albert Museum.[4]
See also
- The Village Holiday by Frederick Goodall, a painting with a similar theme produced the same year
References
- ↑ Gaunt p.223
- ↑ Bills & Knight p.6
- ↑ Wrightsman p.381
- ↑ Victoria and Albert Museum
Bibliography
- Bills, Mark & Knight, Vivien (ed.) William Powell Frith: Painting the Victorian Age. Yale University Press, 2006
- Gaunt, William. The Restless Century: Painting in Britain, 1800–1900. Phaidon, 1972.
- Green, Richard & Sellars, Jane. William Powell Frith: The People's Painter. Bloomsbury, 2019.
- Wrightsman, Jayne. The Wrightsman Pictures. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005.
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