On 9th January 1819 William Powell Frith was born in Aldfield, North Yorkshire [Map].
1838. William Powell Frith [aged 18]. Self-portrait.
1843. William Powell Frith [aged 23]. Portrait of John Ruskin [aged 23].
In or before 1848 William Powell Frith [aged 28] and Isabelle were married. They had twelve children.
1854. William Powell Frith [aged 34]. "Ramsgate Sands".
1855. William Powell Frith [aged 35]. "At the Opera".
1859. William Powell Frith [aged 39]. "Charles Dickens [aged 46] in His Study".
10th March 1863. William Powell Frith [aged 44]. Marriage of the future King Edward VII and Alexandra. The artist has depicted the moment when the Prince [aged 21] is about to place the ring on the Princess' [aged 18] finger. The two little boys dressed in tartan are Prince Leopold [aged 9] and Prince Arthur [aged 12], Queen Victoria's youngest sons. At the top right of the painting the Queen [aged 43] herself looks down on the ceremony.
1872. William Powell Frith [aged 52]. "The Fair Toxophilites".
1875. William Powell Frith [aged 55]. "Polly Peachum".
Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke
Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson.
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In 1880 William Powell Frith [aged 60] and Mary Alford were married after year after the death of his first wife. She and he already had seven children
Before 1900. William Powell Frith [aged 80] and Thomas Creswick. "Haddon Hall, Derbyshire [Map] Steps".
1901. William Powell Frith [aged 81]. Self-portrait.
1901. William Powell Frith [aged 81]. "The Signal".
On 2nd November 1909 William Powell Frith [aged 90] died.