William Edward Frost

William Edward Frost ( * September 1810 in Wandsworth ( Surrey ), † June 4, 1877 in London) was an English painter.

William Edward Frost occurred in 1829 in London as a pupil of the Academy, and devoted himself initially preferably of portraiture. In 1839 he got for his first major picture, Prometheus Bound, a medal and later a different price for a thorn-crowned Christ.

Subsequently he directed more by Etty, the painter beautiful female figures, and preferably depicted mythological objects. Here belong the time of his much admired pictures:

  • The bacchanal
  • The dancing nymphs (1844 ),
  • Diana and Actaeon (1846),
  • Una and the wood nymphs (1847 ),
  • Euphrosyne,
  • The siren,
  • The disarmed Cupid,
  • Andromeda,
  • The Rape of Hylas,
  • The spring morning,
  • The Graces,
  • Narcissus

And similar mythological representations. His last major works were A Nymph and Cupid ( 1874) and A Bacchante. He died on 8 June 1877.

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