FRITH

William Powell, R.A., born at Studley, near Ripon, in 1819, died in London 1909; studied at the Royal Academy School and practised portrait painting. From 1840, when he exhibited his Malvolio at the Royal Academy, he produced a great number of scenes from Shakespeare, Moliére, Dickens, Sterne, Goldsmith, ., besides his immensely popular pictures, Coming of Age in the Olden Time (1849), Life at the Sea-side (1854). Ramsgate Sands (1854—bought by Queen Victoria), The Derby Day (1858 —now in the National Gallery), The Railway Siation (1862), Before Dinner at Boswell’s Lodgings (1868—sold in 1875 for £4,567), The Private View at the Ieoyal Academy (1881), . He was commi ioned by Queen Victoria to paint the marriage of the Prince of Wales. He was elected A.R.A. in 1845, and R.A. in 1852, and was a member of several foreign academies. Large engravings have been produced from a number of his pictures. In 1887-8 he pepiehed his autobiography, 3 vols. vo.