William Edward Frost, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

William Edward Frost

British artist

Date of Birth: 01-Sep-1810

Place of Birth: Surrey, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 08-Jun-1877

Profession: engraver, painter

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

For the Welsh Aviator, see: William Frost William Edward Frost (September 1810 – 4 June 1877) 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, beginning in 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.... —Lionel Lambourne, Victorian Painting



Description	British painter and engraver
Date of birth/death	September 1810	4 June 1877
Location of birth/death	Wandsworth, Surrey, United Kingdom	London
Authority control	: Q2578615 VIAF: 284394 ISNI: 0000 0000 6659 7357 ULAN: 500031053 LCCN: n87112328 WGA: FROST, William Edward WorldCat