Word: frith
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were 800 copies of William Powell Frith's famed "Railway Station." Old Graves gravers, sniffing at modern art prices, remember that this heavily varnished canvas was the artistic sensation of 1862. Royal Academician Frith sold the picture outright for $22,500 and received another $3,750 for waiving his right to show it in the Academy. When it was put on private exhibition, 21,150 people paid to see it in seven weeks, most of them subscribing for copies...