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William Edward Frost Nude Drawings and Watercolors

English, 1810-1877

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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Artist: William Edward Frost
William Edward Frost (1810-1877) - Mid 19th Century Watercolour, Classical Nude
By William Edward Frost
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming watercolour study depicting a classical woman on a plinth. Unsigned. Presented in a white card mount. On paper.
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Mid-19th Century William Edward Frost Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

19th Century British pen and ink drawing of a nude by William Edward Frost
By William Edward Frost
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
William Edward Frost RA (British, 1811 – 1877) Female nude Pen and ink 7 x 4.3/8in. (17.8 x 11 cm.) Provenance: The Maas Gallery, London. No. 13889
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19th Century William Edward Frost Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Pen, Ink

19th Century British pen, watercolour drawing of a nude by William Edward Frost
By William Edward Frost
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
William Edward Frost RA (British, 1811 – 1877) Female nude Pen and ink and watercolour 7.1/4 x 4 in. (18.2 x 10 cm.) Provenance: The Maas Gallery, London. No. 13863
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19th Century Academic William Edward Frost Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Watercolor, Paper, Pen

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