William Silver Frith

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William Silver Frith (1850 - 1924) was a British sculptor.

Frith graduated from the Lambeth School of Art and the Royal Academy Schools, and became assistant to Jules Dalou. By 1880 Frith had succeeded Dalou as master at the newly formed South London Technical Art School, and there became a guiding force to several of the figures in the New Sculpture school, including F. W. Pomeroy, C.J. Allen, and George Frampton.

In his own work he was primarily an architectural sculptor, often with architect Sir Aston Webb. That work includes:

figures of Justice, Truth, Patience and Plenty, Victoria Law Courts, Birmingham (1885)
the Metropolitan Life Assurance Company building in Moorgate, London
fountain figures at Christ's Hospital, Horsham, Sussex, England
Imperial College, South Kensington
supervising sculptor and the Canada group for the Duolton Fountain, Glasgow (1887-1888)
statues of British sculptors Grinling Gibbons and John Bacon for the Victoria and Albert Museum (1899-1909)