WILLIAM

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• EDWARD

EDWARD

See also:

• FROST (a common Teutonic word, cf. Dutch, vorst, Ger. Frost, from the common Teutonic verb meaning " to freeze," Dutch, vriezcn, Ger. frieren; the Indo-European root is seen in Lat. pruina, hoar-frost, cf. prurire, to itch, burn, pruna, burning coal, Sans
• WILLIAM EDWARD FROST (1810–1877)

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

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

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