oil on panel, 4 × 3 ins
Egley is best known for his genre paintings in the style of William Powell Frith,
indeed he worked with Frith painting in the backgrounds on several of his pictures
and counted him as a friend. Living in London he was able to exhibit extensively at
the Royal Academy (from 1843–1898) with subjects as diverse as historical genre,
literary illustration and scenes from contemporary life. Egley painted for most of his long life and a list of over a thousand paintings is recorded in his diaries in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
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