My Autobiography and Reminiscences 3 Volume Set

by William Powell Frith

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781108051842
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	06/28/2012
Series:	Cambridge Library Collection - Art and Architecture
Pages:	1240
Product dimensions:	5.47(w) x 8.54(h) x 2.95(d)

Table of Contents

Volume 1: 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 Molière; 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. Volume 2: 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. Volume 3: 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.