Thomas Frye
(1710 - 3 April 1762) |
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portraiture, miniature Art Work
| Name: |
Thomas Frye |
| Gender: |
Male |
| Place of Birth: |
Edenderry, Ireland |
| Nationality: |
British |
| Birth: |
1710 |
| Death: |
3 April 1762 |
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| Past Auctions: |
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Quick Facts
| Known For: |
portraiture, miniature |
| Medium: |
oil painting, pastel, mezzotint |
| Method: |
oil painting, pastel, mezzotint |
| Style: |
Realism |
| Fine Art Profession(s): |
Painting
Printmaking
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Biography
Thomas Frye is best-known for his portraits in oil and pastel, including some miniatures and his early mezzotint engravings.
Thomas Frye was born at Edenderry, County Offaly, Ireland, in 1710. He went to London to practice as an artist in his youth. His earliest work are a pair of pastel portraits of boys. For the Worshipful Company of Saddlers he painted a full-length portrait of Frederick, Prince of Wales (1736, destroyed 1940). He took out a patent on china clay to be imported from Virginia in November 1745, and became manager of the Bow factory in the 1740s. He retired to Wales in 1759, but soon returned to London and resumed his occupation as an engraver, publishing the series of life-size portraits in mezzotint, for which he is most remembered. He died of consumption on 2 April 1762. |
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