A Painter and His World
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Product details
- ISBN 9780750938457
- Weight: 790g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 22 Oct 2006
- Publisher: The History Press Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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William Powell Frith was one of the most popular and most successful figures of the Victorian art world. His work spanned the entire Victorian age and he became famous for large-scale paintings such as "Derby Day". This work describes the colourful life of this reluctant artist. The story of Frith's life a picture of the Victorian period.
Christopher Wood has been an art dealer for over thirty years and is the author of The Dictionary of Victorian Painters, Paradise Lost, The Pre-Raphaelites, Painted Gardens and numerous other books. He appears regularly on The Antiques Roadshow, and has been the curator for a number of exhibitions. He lives in London.
