© Mercer Art Gallery
Many Happy Returns of the Day
Artist: William Powell Frith (1819 - 1909)
Location: Mercer Art Gallery
Date: 1856
Materials: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 80 x 112 cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £300 (Total: £400)
Vendor: P R Farrer
Review number: 1622 (1951)
Description:
A Victorian dining room with the table set for a birthday tea. In the place of honour sits the little girl, whose health is being drunk, with a large wreath fixed vertically to the back of her chair. The child 'Alice' in the painting is Frith's daughter, later Lady Hastings, the father is a portrait of the artist, and the grandmother is a portrait of Mrs Frith Senior, who kept the Dragon Hotel in Harrogate, from 1826 to 1838. Described by Ruskin as a 'Taking Picture'.
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