William Powell Frith was an English painter specialising in genre subjects and panoramic narrative works of life in the Victorian era. He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1853, presenting The Sleep
Self-Portrait at the Age of 82 (1901)
Mr WP Frith RA as portrayed by Spy in Vanity Fair, 10 May 1873. Caption reads "The Derby-Day".
Richard Dadd was an English painter of the Victorian era, noted for his depictions of fairies and other supernatural subjects, Orientalist scenes, and enigmatic genre scenes, rendered with obsessively
William Powell Frith
…output of writers such as Charles Dickens, whose portrait he painted (in 1859), and Laurence Sterne. He was a member of The Clique, which also included Richard Dadd. The principal influence on his work was the hugely popular domestic subjects painted by Sir David Wilkie. Wilkie's famous painting The Chelsea Pensioners…
Dadd working on Contradiction: Oberon and Titania (1854/1858). Photograph by Henry Hering [fr; it].
Caravanserai at Mylasa in Asia Minor (1845)
The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke, oil on canvas, 26 in × 21 in (660 mm × 530 mm) (1855–64)
The Halt in the Desert, 1845