Short answers, pulled from the story.
William Powell Frith was born on the 9th of January 1819 in Aldfield, near Ripon in Yorkshire, and died on the 2nd of November 1909 at the age of 90. He is buried in Kensal Green Cemetery in London.
William Powell Frith's best known painting is The Derby Day, showing the crowd at the horse race at Epsom Downs. Jacob Bell bought it in 1858 for £1,500, and it proved so popular that the Royal Academy installed a protective rail around it.
William Powell Frith has been described as "the greatest British painter of the social scene since Hogarth," and he later painted two Hogarth-style morality series, Road to Ruin in 1878 and Race for Wealth in 1880.
William Powell Frith married twice, first to Isabelle, with whom he had twelve children, and later to Mary Alford, his former ward and longtime mistress, with whom he had seven more children. He married Alford a year after Isabelle died in 1880.
William Powell Frith was an outspoken traditionalist who disliked the Pre-Raphaelites and the Aesthetic Movement, and he satirised the Aesthetic Movement in his 1883 painting A Private View at the Royal Academy, which depicts Oscar Wilde discoursing on art.
William Powell Frith's paintings are held by institutions including Derby Art Gallery, Sheffield, Harrogate and the Victoria and Albert Museum. A major retrospective of his work opened at the Guildhall Art Gallery in London in November 2006 before transferring to the Mercer Art Gallery in Harrogate in March 2007.