# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-frye
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:31:25.996Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-frye"
name: "Thomas Frye"
slug: "thomas-frye"
description: "Thomas Frye 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 rivals at the Chelsea porcelain factory seem to have preceded him in bringing wares to market. The Bow porcelain works did not long survive Frye's death; their final auctions took place in May 1764."
tagline: "Anglo-Irish artist (c.1710-1762)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Thomas_Frye%2C_Self-Portrait%2C_1760%2C_NGA_74817.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1710"
deathDate: "1762-04-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.48
  momentum:             2.117647058823529
  historical:           4.807416
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Frye"
    title: "Thomas Frye"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Frye"
    title: "Thomas Frye"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Frye"
    title: "Thomas Frye"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Frye"
    title: "Thomas Frye"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B9%2C_%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%81_(%D1%85%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B6%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA)"
    title: "Фрай, Томас (художник)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3893676"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump