William Edward Frost19th Century British pen and ink drawing of a nude by William Edward Frost
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- Creator:William Edward Frost (1810 - 1877, English)
- Dimensions:Height: 7 in (17.78 cm)Width: 4.38 in (11.13 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
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- Condition:In very good condition. Double mounted behind glass. In a walnut style frame with black outer edge, minor abrasions.
- Gallery Location:Petworth, GB
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU54039008332
William Edward Frost
William Edward Frost was an English painter of the Victorian era. Virtually alone among English artists in the middle Victorian period, he devoted his practice to the portrayal of the female nude. Frost was educated in the schools of the Royal Academy. At the beginning of 1829, he established a reputation as a portrait painter before branching into historical and mythological subjects, including the subgenre of fairy painting that was characteristic of Victorian art. In 1839, he won the Royal Academy's gold medal for his Prometheus Bound, and in 1843, he won a prize in the Westminster Hall competition for his Una Alarmed by Fauns (a subject from Spenser's The Faerie Queene). He was elected an associate member of the Royal Academy in 1846 and a full member in 1870. Frost is widely recognized as a follower of William Etty, who preceded him as the primary British painter of nudes in the second quarter of the nineteenth century. Despite the prudishness of the Victorian era, Frost's relatively chaste nudes were popular and his career was financially successful. At their best, Frost's works have a distinctive jewel-like charm, his attractive young women models possessing a pert, self-conscious quality, which makes them more titillating than Etty's powerful studies.
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