In Naples, Portrait of the Artist
| In Naples, Portrait of the Artist | |
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| Artist | William Powell Frith |
| Year | 1875 |
| Type | Oil on canvas, portrait painting |
| Dimensions | 61.8 cm × 49 cm (24.3 in × 19 in) |
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In Naples, Portrait of the Artist is an oil on canvas painting by the British artist William Powell Frith, from 1875. A self-portrait, it shows him being approached and "buttonholed" by an Italian flower seller with the Bay of Naples behind him. Frith accompanied his wife and daughters on a Grand Tour of Continental Europe that year, although this was one of on a few paintings he produced from the trip.[1][2]
The picture was displayed at Royal Scottish Academy in 1877.[3] Today it is in the collection of Hospitalfield House in Arbroath, having been acquired in 1890.[4]
References
Bibliography
- Green, Richard & Sellars, Jane. William Powell Frith: The People's Painter. Bloomsbury, 2019.
- Wood, Christopher. William Powell Frith: A Painter and His World. Sutton Publishing, 2006.
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