WILLIAM POWELL FRITH 1819-09

No.15

The Railway Station

This huge 1862 oil painting measuring 116.7cm x 256.4 cm. depicts Paddington Railway Station in London. Frith was an English painter specialising in genre subjects and panoramic narrative works of life in Victorian times. He has been described as the "greatest British painter of the social scene since Hogarth."

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