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 English School William Edward Frost Art
Board, Oil
19th Century William Edward Frost Art
Pen, Ink
19th Century Academic William Edward Frost Art
Ink, Watercolor, Paper, Pen
19th Century Academic William Edward Frost Art
Paper, Carbon Pencil
21st Century and Contemporary Realist William Edward Frost Art
Graphite, Paper, Gouache
Late 19th Century Academic William Edward Frost Art
Gesso, Paper, Charcoal, Carbon Pencil
1990s Realist William Edward Frost Art
Oil, Canvas
1990s Realist William Edward Frost Art
Oil
Early 19th Century Academic William Edward Frost Art
Charcoal, Pencil, Paper
1820s English School William Edward Frost Art
Canvas, Oil
1980s Contemporary William Edward Frost Art
Ink, Watercolor, Pen
1980s English School William Edward Frost Art
Oil
1980s Academic William Edward Frost Art
Archival Paper, Conté
Late 20th Century English School William Edward Frost Art
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
19th Century Academic William Edward Frost Art
Paper, Chalk, Crayon, Pencil, Carbon Pencil
19th Century Academic William Edward Frost Art
Oil, Board
Mid-19th Century Victorian William Edward Frost Art
Gouache