Artist

Francis Frith

Portrait of Francis Frith

English, 1822–1898

Francis Frith was an English Realism artist. 9 works are cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.

Francis Frith was an English photographer and businessman. Francis Frith & Co., the company he founded in 1860 with the initial goal of photographing every town and village in England, quickly became the largest photographic publishers in the world and eventually amassed a collection of 330,000 negatives covering over 7,000 population centres across Great Britain and Ireland.

Collections represented

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