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 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).

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.

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