Live Auction 11148Victorian, Pre-Raphaelite & British Impressionist Art
William Powell Frith, R.A. (1819-1909)
Lot 75

William Powell Frith, R.A. (1819-1909)

Isabelle Frith reading

Closed16 June 2015

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GBP 20,000

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William Powell Frith, R.A. (1819-1909)
Isabelle Frith reading
signed and dated 'W.P. FRITH 1845' (lower left) and with inscription 'Portrait sketch of my Mother,/Isabelle Frith, née Baker;/Probably painted in 1850/by W.P. Frith R.A./Walter Frith./13 Harley Gardens./S.W.10/July ix:1933' (in the hand of the artist's son, on a label attached to the reverse) and with a further inscription 'Sketch by Frith R.A.' (on a fragmentary label attached to the stretcher)
oil on panel
11 x 13 ½ in. (28 x 34.3 cm.)

By descent in the family of the artist until
Sir Philip Panton (†); Christie's, London, 20 April 1951, lot 6 (26 gns to Arcade Gallery).
Peter Ward-Jackson, and by descent to the present owner.

Specialist note

Frith and Isabelle Baker (1822-80) were married in York on 26 June 1845, the year this work was executed. This suggests that it may have been painted while the couple were on their honeymoon in the Derbyshire Dales. Their first address was in Charlotte Street, London, but in 1847 as the family grew, they moved into their first wholly-owned house, 13 Park Village West in Regent's Park. Another portrait of Isabelle Frith was sold in these Rooms from the collection of Christopher Wood on 28 February 2007, lot 56.