Poverty and Wealth by William Powell Frith, RA. Signed and dated 1888 at lower left. Oil on canvas: 32 x 47 inches. Provenance: Christie's, 4th May, 1889, lot 139. Exhibited: The Royal Academy, 1888, no. 26. (Exhibited Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, William Powell Frith, 1951, no. 43.) Courtesy of Peter Nahum Ltd, London.

His 1858 painting The Crossing Sweeper has been described as breaking "new ground in its description of the collision of wealth and poverty on a London street." [10] Later in his career he painted two series of five pictures each, telling moral stories in the manner of William Hogarth.

Typical of the London street scenes that Frith painted, the subject’s interpretation depends upon minutely observed incident and detail. There exists a smaller version of the same subject dated 1880, (Exhibited Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, William Powell Frith, 1951, no. 43.)

Oct 23, 2007 · As the title implies, Poverty and Wealth is a painting of two opposing worlds and each is separated from the other through the division of the composition – the poor on the right and the rich on the left. It is a pictorial comment upon injustice and …

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In December 2016 Sothebys in London held the auction Victorian, Pre-Raphaelite & British Impressionist Art, which included the work Poverty And Wealth by William Powell Frith. The »bidding war« ended at GBP 175,000.00 (€ 204,603.39), 46% above the upper estimate.

This work is typical of the London street scenes that Frith painted, crowded with figures, where the subject’s interpretation depends upon minutely observed incident and detail. Outside a fishmongers shop on Bond Street, a group of poor women and children queue up to acquire the day’s unsold fish.

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Frith, William Powell, 1819-1909. Poverty and Wealth, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act …