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FRISCII FRISCH, JOHANN CHRISTOPH, born in Berlin in 1730, died there in 1815. His- tory painter, pupil of B. Rode, afterwards studied in Rome, became court-painter and director of Berlin Academy. Works : Myth- ological subjects and scenes from life of Frederic the Great in Royal Palaces of Ber- lin, Potsdam, and Sans-souci. FRITEL, PIERRE, born in Paris ; con- temporary. History and portrait painter, pupil of Ainu' Millet and of Cabanel. Medal, 2d class, 1ST 1 .). Works: St. John Baptist (187C); Despair of CEdipus (1877); Electra (1878); Mater Dolorosa (1878), Prefecture de la Seine, Paris; A Martyr (1870); Fifer (1881) ; Remorse, The Widow (1882); Solum Pah-iii' (1885). FRITH, WILLIAM POWELL, born at ^-s. .,, Studlev, near Ripon, '- ';, in 1819. Genre painter, pupil of Royal Academy, London, where he exhibited his Mal- volio and Countess Olivia in 1840. Elected an A.R.A. in 1<S45, and R.A. in 185:5 ; member of Royal Academies of Vicuna (180!)), Belgium (1871), Sweden (187:5), and Antwerp. Medal, Paris, 2d class, 185.") ; L. of Honour, 1878. Works : Othello and Desdemona (1810) ; Leicester and Amy Robsart (1841); Duel from TwelfthNight (1843); Knox and Queeii Mary (1844); Nora Creiua (1840); Coming of Age (1849) ; Pope and Mary Montagu (1852); A Dream of the Future (185C); Derby Day (1858) ; Claude Duval (18(50); Jlailimy Station (18(52); Marriage of Prince of Wales (1805) ; Before Dinner at Boswell's (18(58) ; Henry VIII. (1872); Pamela (1875); Road to Ruin (1878); The Private View 1881, Kate Kearney, Honeymooning in Switzerland, La Belle Marquise (1883) ; Beatrice overhears that Benedick loves her, Dr. Johnson and Mrs. Siddons, Cruel Ne- cessity, London Flower-Girl (1884); John Knox at Holyrood (1885). Art Journal |(185G), 237; Sandby, ii. 2!)7 ; Gaz. des B. Arts (18G2), xiii. 215. FRITSCH, MELCHIOR, born in Vienna, Jan. 2, 1825. Landscape painter, pupil of Vienna Academy, where he studied drawing under Mossmer. Although self-taught in painting, he obtained the Imperial prize in 1845. Works : Burning Village after Storm ; Pass near Giinsling in Tyrol ; Landscape in Storm with returning Villagers (1874) ; View on Langbath Lake (1875) ; Burning Village (1877). Miiller, 187 ; Wurzbach, iv. 372. FRIT/, ANDREAS, born at Parsonage of Mou, near Aalborg, Jutland, Nov. 2, 1828. Landscape painter, pupil of Copenhagen Academy under Kobke, Gertner, and Mar- strand ; visited Paris in 1855 and 1878; went abroad again in 1871. Medals, 1854, 1855. Works: Jutland Gleaner Girl (1850); Views in Jutland (1870-80). Sigurd Miiller, 111 ; Weilbach, 186. FRIT/E, MARGARETE (AUGUSTE), born at Dreileben, near Magdeburg, Oct. 28, 1845. Genre painter, first instructed in Bremen, then pupil in Munich of Griitzner and Liezen-Mayer, also much influenced by Kotzebue and Alexander Wagner. Moved to Stuttgart in 1880. Works : In Foreign Lands ; Portraits.- Miiller, 188. FROLICH, LORENS, born in Copenha- gen, Oct. 25, 1820. History and genre painter, and illus- trator, pupil of Rorbye, then of Hetsch and Eck- ersberg. Went in 1840 to Munich, and in 1842 to D r e s d e n, where f he studied imder Bendemaun, then (1846-51) in Rome, and 1851-54 under Couture in Paris, where he went again in 1857, then settled in Co- penhagen in 1873. Has illustrated many works of Danish authors. Danebrog Order