William Edward Frost Art
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.
Mid-19th Century Realist William Edward Frost Art
Watercolor
Mid-19th Century William Edward Frost Art
Watercolor
19th Century Realist William Edward Frost Art
Oil
19th Century Academic William Edward Frost Art
Paper, Ink, Pen, Watercolor
19th Century English School William Edward Frost Art
Board, Oil
19th Century William Edward Frost Art
Ink, Pen
Mid-20th Century Realist William Edward Frost Art
Watercolor
1990s William Edward Frost Art
Ink, Pen
21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist William Edward Frost Art
Paper, Ink, Pen
Early 20th Century English School William Edward Frost Art
Oil
1970s William Edward Frost Art
Watercolor
Mid-20th Century Realist William Edward Frost Art
Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
2010s Realist William Edward Frost Art
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Pencil
2010s Realist William Edward Frost Art
Handmade Paper, Pencil, Watercolor
Mid-20th Century Realist William Edward Frost Art
Watercolor, Gouache
2010s Contemporary William Edward Frost Art
Paper, Watercolor, Graphite
Late 18th Century English School William Edward Frost Art
Oil, Canvas
Mid-20th Century Realist William Edward Frost Art
Watercolor, Gouache
19th Century Academic William Edward Frost Art
Oil, Board
Mid-19th Century Victorian William Edward Frost Art
Gouache