Thomas Frye

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Place: Edenderry

Born: 1710

Death: 1762

Biography:

Thomas Frye (c. 1710 – 3 April 1762 ) was an Anglo-Irish artist, best known for his portraits in oil and pastel, including some miniatures and his early mezzotint engravings. He was also the patentee of the Bow porcelain factory, London, and claimed in his epitaph to be "the inventor and first manufacturer of porcelain in England," though his rival...

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