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William Powell Frith: An English Merrymaking a Hundred Years Ago   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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William Powell Frith  (1819–1909)  wikidata:Q955750
 
William Powell Frith
Description English painter
Date of birth/death 19 January 1819 Edit this at Wikidata 9 November 1909 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Aldfield, North Yorkshire, England London Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q955750
Title
An English Merrymaking a Hundred Years Ago
label QS:Len,"An English Merrymaking a Hundred Years Ago"
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Description
"When the merry bells ring round,
And jocund rebecks sound
To many a youth and many a maid
Dancing in the checquered shade,
And young and old come forth to play
On a sunshine holiday" - Milton's L'Allegro
Date 1847
date QS:P571,+1847-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 113 cm (44.4 in); width: 185.5 cm (73 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,113U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,185.5U174728
Object history Sold by Frith to a picture-dealer
John Graham, Skelmorlie Castle, Ayrshire, by 1862.
H.W.F. Bolckow by 1887 (+); Christie's, London, 18 June 1892, lot 159, 430 gns to William Proby, 5th Earl of Carysfort, and thence by descent.
Exhibition history
  • London, Royal Academy, 1847, no. 251.
  • London, International Exhibition, 1862, no. 667, lent by John Graham.
  • Manchester, Royal Jubilee Exhibition, 1887, no. 344, lent by Mrs Bolckow.
  • Manchester, Art Treasures Centenary Exhibition, 1957, no. 211.
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Signature and date bottom left:

W.P. Frith. 1847
Source/Photographer Christie's, LotFinder: entry 5275395 (sale 7788, lot 34, London, 16 December 2009)

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