# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-maw-egley
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:43:31.775Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-maw-egley"
name: "William Maw Egley"
slug: "william-maw-egley"
description: "William Maw Egley was an English artist of the Victorian era. The son of the miniaturist William Egley, he studied under his father. His early works were illustrations of literary subjects typical of the period, such as Prospero and Miranda from The Tempest. These were similar to the work of The Clique. William Powell Frith, one of The Clique, hired Egley to add backgrounds to his own work. Egley soon developed a style influenced by Frith, including domestic and childhood subjects. Most of his paintings were humorous or \"feelgood\" genre scenes of urban and rural life, depicting such subjects as harvest festivals and contemporary fashions. His best-known painting, Omnibus Life in London, is a comic scene of people squashed together in the busy, cramped public transport of the era."
tagline: "British artist (1826-1916)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e9/Prospero_and_miranda.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1826"
deathDate: "1916"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.64
  momentum:             2.321428571428572
  historical:           5.471634666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Maw_Egley"
    title: "William Maw Egley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%88_%D8%A7%D8%AC%D9%84%D9%89"
    title: "وليام ماو اجلى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Maw_Egley"
    title: "William Maw Egley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D0%B3%D0%BB%D0%B8%2C_%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC_%D0%9C%D0%BE"
    title: "Эгли, Уильям Мо"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Maw_Egley"
    title: "William Maw Egley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Maw_Egley"
    title: "William Maw Egley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2695278"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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