Daniel Maclise was an Irish painter. He was born in 1806 at Cork and died in 1870. His first notable picture was a water-colour drawing in 1829 entitled 'Malvolio Affecting the Count'. In 1835 he was elected ARA with full honours following in 1840. From 1830 to 1836 he worked under the pseudonym Alfred Croquis, producing character portraits for 'Fraser's Magazine'. Research Daniel Maclise
William Powell Frith was an English artist. He was born in 1819 at Studley, near Ripon and died in 1909. After 1840, when he exhibited Malvolio before Olivia at the Royal Academy, he produced a great number of scenes from Shakespeare, Moliere, Dickens, Sterne, Goldsmith, etc, besides his immensely popular pictures, Coming of Age in the Olden Time (1849), Life at the Seaside (1854), The Derby Day (18S8), The Railway Station (1862), Before Dinner at Boswell's Lodgings (1868) The Private View at the Royal Academy (1881), etc. He was commissioned by queen Victoria to paint the marriage of the Prince of Wales. He was elected RA in 1852, and was a member of several foreign academies. Large engravings have been produced from a number of his pictures. In 1887-1888 he published his autobiography in three volumes. Research William Frith
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