page_title: William Silver Frith
hierarchical_section_title: William Silver Frith
caption_attribution_description: English: W.S.Frith work at the entrance to 2 Temple Place on the Embankment.
context_page_description: William Silver Frith was a British sculptor.
  Frith graduated from the Lambeth School of Art and the Royal Academy Schools, and became assistant to Jules Dalou. By 1880 Frith had succeeded Dalou as master at the newly formed South London Technical Art School. There he became a guiding force to several of the figures in the New Sculpture school, including F. W. Pomeroy, C. J. Allen, and George Frampton.
  In his own work he was primarily an architectural sculptor, often with architect Sir Aston Webb.
  His work includes:
  figures of Justice, Truth, Patience and Plenty, Victoria Law Courts, Birmingham
  the Metropolitan Life Assurance Company building in Moorgate, London
  fountain figures at Christ's Hospital, Horsham, Sussex, England
  Imperial College, South Kensington
  supervising sculptor and the Canada group for the Doulton Fountain, Glasgow
  statues of British sculptors Grinling Gibbons and John Bacon for the Victoria and Albert Museum
  front entrance portico design and sculptures for Two Temple Place, London, England
  the Hugh de Boves and Hugh of Faringdon memorials, in the ruined chapter house of Reading Abbey
context_section_description: William Silver Frith (1850–1924) was a British sculptor.
  Frith graduated from the Lambeth School of Art and the Royal Academy Schools, and became assistant to Jules Dalou.  By 1880 Frith had succeeded Dalou as master at the newly formed South London Technical Art School (which replaced Lambeth School of Art and is now called City and Guilds of London Art School). There he became a guiding force to several of the figures in the New Sculpture school, including F. W. Pomeroy, C. J. Allen, and George Frampton.
  In his own work he was primarily an architectural sculptor, often with architect Sir Aston Webb.
  His work includes:
   
  figures of Justice, Truth, Patience and Plenty, Victoria Law Courts, Birmingham (1885)
  the Metropolitan Life Assurance Company building in Moorgate, London
  fountain figures at Christ's Hospital, Horsham, Sussex, England
  Imperial College, South Kensington
  supervising sculptor and the Canada group for the Doulton Fountain, Glasgow (1887–1888)
  statues of British sculptors Grinling Gibbons and John Bacon for the Victoria and Albert Museum (1899–1909)
  front entrance portico design and sculptures (as well as assorted other elements of the building decoration) for Two Temple Place, London, England
  the Hugh de Boves and Hugh of Faringdon memorials, in the ruined chapter house of Reading Abbey (1911)
caption: One of the pair of ornamental lamppost-sculptures at the portico front entrance of Two Temple Place, designed by Frith.
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