About William Silver Frith
Lived 1850 – 1924 (aged 73–74). William Silver Frith was a sculptor.
William Silver Frith (1850–1924) was a British sculptor.
Frith graduated from the Lambeth School of Art and the Royal Academy Schools, and became assistant to Jules Dalou. By 1880 Frith had succeeded Dalou as master at the Lambeth School of Art, at a time when it was being reorganised into the South London Technical Art School (now called City and Guilds of London Art School). There he became a guiding force to several of the figures in the New Sculpture school, including F. W. Pomeroy, C. J. Allen, and George Frampton.
In his own work he was primarily an architectural sculptor,
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British artist
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William Silver Frith was born in 1850.
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William Silver Frith died in 1924.
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William Silver Frith was a sculptor.
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