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William Maw Egley (1826-1916) began painting in his early teens under the tutelage of his father, the portrait painter and miniaturist William Egley. Early in his career he produced fashionable literary illustrations of Molière and Shakespeare. Later he was hired by William Powell Frith to paint backgrounds, and under his influence began painting domestic genre scenes, especially of children's play such as Coming Events Cast Their Shadow Before (1861). Egley's paintings were sometimes criticised for harshness of execution and lapses of scale or perspective.
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