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FROST, WILLIAM EDWARD (1810–1877)

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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 251 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FROST, See also:WILLIAM See also:EDWARD (1810–1877) , See also:English painter, was See also:born at See also:Wandsworth, near See also:London, in See also:September 1810. About 1825, through William See also:Etty, R.A., he was sent to a See also:drawing school in Bloomsbury, and after several years' study there, and in the See also:sculpture rooms at the See also:British Museum, Frost was in 1829 admitted as a student in the See also:schools of the Royal See also:Academy. He won medals in all the schools, except the See also:antique, in which he was beaten by See also:Maclise. During those years he maintained himself by portrait-See also:painting. He is said to have painted about this See also:time over 300 portraits. In 1839 he obtained the See also:gold See also:medal of the Royal Academy for his picture of " See also:Prometheus See also:bound by Force and Strength." At the See also:cartoon See also:exhibition at See also:Westminster See also:Hall in 1843 he was awarded a third-class See also:prize of boo for his cartoon of " Una alarmed by Fauns and See also:Satyrs." He exhibited at the Academy " See also:Christ crowned with Thorns " (1843), " See also:Nymphs dancing " (1844), " Sabrina " (1845), " See also:Diana and See also:Actaeon " (1846). In 1846 he was elected See also:Associate of the Royal Academy. His " Nymph disarming See also:Cupid " was exhibited in 1847; " Una and the See also:Wood-Nymphs" of the same See also:year was bought by the See also:queen. This was the time of Frost's highest popularity, which considerably declined after 1850. His later pictures are simply repetitions of earlier motives. Among them may be named " See also:Euphrosyne " (1848), " Wood-Nymphs " (1851), " Chastity " (1854), " Il Penseroso "(1855), "The See also:Graces" (1856), " See also:Narcissus " (1857), " Zephyr with See also:Aurora playing " (1858), " The Graces and Loves " (1863), " See also:Hylas and the Nymphs " (1867). Frost was elected to full membership of the Royal Academy in See also:December 1871.

This dignity, however, he soon resigned. Frost had no high See also:

power of See also:design, though some of his smaller and apparently less important See also:works are not with-out See also:grace and See also:charm. Technically, his paintings are, in a sense, very highly finished, but they are entirely without mastery. He died on the 4th of See also:June 1877.

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