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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 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
 * (185G), 237; Sandby, ii. 2!)7 ; Gaz. des B.