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Francis Frith, also spelled Frances Frith, was an English photographer of the Middle East and many towns in the United Kingdom. He opened the firm of Francis Frith & Co. in Reigate, Surrey, as the world's first specialist photographic publisher. He died in Cannes, France at his villa on 25 February 1898. Frith was re-launched in 1976 as The Francis Frith Collection by John Buck, a Rothmans executive, with the intention of making the Frith photographs available to as wide an audience as possible. His works can be seen at www.francisfrith.com.

In the book Watership Down, by Richard Adams (1972), Lord Frith is the sun-god, and creator of the universe. In the rabbits' creation story, he grants all the animals their distinguishing features.

Rebecca Frith is an Australian actress. She has appeared in a diversity of TV shows and gained international acclaim as the older of two sisters vying for the attentions of a lecherous DJ in Shirley Barrett's Caméra d'Or winning debut, "Love Serenade", screening in "Un Certain Regard" at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival. For the role she was awarded the Leonardo da Vinci prize for Best Actress, Debut Performance by the Beaux Arts Society in New York. In 2002 she received an Australian Film Institute award nomination "Best Actress in a Supporting or Guest Role in a Television Drama" for her role in "Secret Bridesmaids' Business". The other Rebecca Frith is an Australian fashion model, as can be seen in the picture (right). See more of her here.

Thomas Hopkins left it to his daughter Jean, who in turn left it to Anne and Marianne Hopkins, from whom we bought it in 2014.

William Powell Frith was a 19 th Century painter specialising in genre subjects and panoramic narrative works of life in the Victorian era. He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1853, presenting The Sleeping Model as his Diploma work. He has been described as the "greatest British painter of the social scene since Hogarth".