FRISCH, JOHANN CHRISTOPH, born in Berlin in 1730, died there in 1815. History painter, pupil of B. Rode, afterwards studied in Rome, became court-painter and director of Berlin Academy. Works: Mythological subjects and scenes from life of Frederic the Great in Royal Palaces of Berlin, Potsdam, and Sans-souci.
FRITEL, PIERRE, born in Paris; contemporary.
History and portrait painter,
pupil of Aimé Millet and of Cabanel. Medal,
2d class, 1879. Works: St. John Baptist
(1876); Despair of Œdipus (1877); Electra
(1878); Mater Dolorosa (1878), Préfecture
de la Seine, Paris; A Martyr (1879); Fifer
(1881); Remorse, The Widow (1882); Solum
Patriæ (1885).
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FRITH, WILLIAM POWELL, born at
Studley, near Ripon,
in 1819. Genre
painter, pupil of
Royal Academy,
London, where he
exhibited his Malvolio
and Countess
Olivia in 1840.
Elected an A.R.A.
in 1845, and R.A. in
1853; member of
Royal Academies of Vienna (1869), Belgium
(1871), Sweden (1873), and Antwerp. Medal,
Paris, 2d class, 1855; L. of Honour, 1878.
Works: Othello and Desdemona (1840);
Leicester and Amy Robsart (1841); Duel
from Twelfth Night (1843); Knox and Queen
Mary (1844); Nora Creina (1846); Coming
of Age (1849); Pope and Mary Montagu
(1852); A Dream of the Future (1856);
Derby Day (1858); Claude Duval (1860);
Railway Station (1862); Marriage of Prince
of Wales (1865); Before Dinner at Boswell's
(1868); 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 Necessity,
London Flower-Girl (1884); John
Knox at Holyrood (1885).—Art Journal
(1856), 237; Sandby, ii. 297; Gaz. des B.
Arts (1862), xiii. 215.
FRITSCH, MELCHIOR, born in Vienna,
Jan. 2, 1825. Landscape painter, pupil of
Vienna Academy, where he studied drawing
under Mössmer. Although self-taught in
painting, he obtained the Imperial prize in
1845. Works: Burning Village after Storm;
Pass near Günsling in Tyrol; Landscape in
Storm with returning Villagers (1874);
View on Langbath Lake (1875); Burning
Village (1877).—Müller, 187; Wurzbach, iv.
372.
FRITZ, ANDREAS, born at Parsonage of
Mou, near Aalborg, Jutland, Nov. 2, 1828.
Landscape painter, pupil of Copenhagen
Academy under Kobke, Gertner, and Marstrand;
visited Paris in 1855 and 1878; went
abroad again in 1871. Medals, 1854, 1855.
Works: Jutland Gleaner Girl (1856); Views
in Jutland (1870-80).—Sigurd Müller, 111;
Weilbach, 186.
FRITZE, MARGARETE (AUGUSTE),
born at Dreileben, near Magdeburg, Oct. 28,
1845. Genre painter, first instructed in
Bremen, then pupil in Munich of Grützner
and Liezen-Mayer, also much influenced by
Kotzebue and Alexander Wagner. Moved
to Stuttgart in 1880. Works: In Foreign
Lands; Portraits.—Müller, 188.
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FRÖLICH, LORENS, born in Copenhagen,
Oct. 25, 1820.
History and genre
painter, and illustrator,
pupil of
Rörbye, then of
Hetsch and Eckersberg.
Went
in 1840 to Munich,
and in 1842 to
Dresden, where
he studied under
Bendemann, then (1846-51) in Rome, and
1851-54 under Couture in Paris, where
he went again in 1857, then settled in Copenhagen
in 1873. Has illustrated many
works of Danish authors. Danebrog Order
