Study for Many Happy Returns of the Day
William Powell Frith
- Art Funded
- 1992
- Dimensions
- 30 x 40 cm
- Vendor
- Christopher Wood
The little girl whose birthday is being celebrated is his daughter Alice, whose name appears on the birthday cake in the sketch.
Although he trained and spent his working life in London, Frith was a Yorkshire artist; he was born near Ripon in 1819 and in 1826 his father became landlord of the Dragon Inn, Harrogate.
Provenance
Sale Christie's 8/2/91; Christopher Wood gallery.