William Powell Frith, an English artist, born at Studley, near Ripon, Yorkshire, in 1819. He is one of the most successful painters of genre of the modern English school, selecting his subjects from Shakespeare, Cervantes, Goldsmith, the Spectator," and kindred sources. Of late years he has produced some striking representations of every-day life. Perhaps his greatest painting is the Railway Station (1862), for which he received £6,000; the painting, with the right of engraving, has since been sold for £23,000. He was elected an honorary member of the imperial academy of fine arts at Vienna in 1869, and of the royal academy of Belgium in 1871.