Francis Seth Frost
Illustration — Portrait of F.S. Frost Francis Seth Frost (1825–1902) or F.S. Frost was a painter, photographer, and businessman specializing in artists' materials. Based in Boston, Massachusetts, he travelled widely in the United States. Friends included Albert Bierstadt.
Also recorded as Francis Shedd Frost
Francis Seth Frost
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- Francis Seth Frost was born on 1 January 1825.
- Died
- Francis Seth Frost died on 1 January 1902.
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- photographer · painter
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Illustration — Portrait of F.S. Frost Francis Seth Frost (1825–1902) or F.S. Frost was a painter, photographer, and businessman specializing in artists' materials. Based in Boston, Massachusetts, he travelled widely in the United States. Friends included Albert Bierstadt.
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Frost kept an art studio in the Studio Building on Tremont Street in Boston. In 1869 with E.H. Adams he began the artists' supply firm, Frost & Adams, which flourished into the 20th century.
• Illustration — Lake Winnipesaukee, 19th century • Illustration — Rocky New England coast, 1866 • Illustration — Mt. Washington, 19th century
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- 1.Peter E. Palmquist, Thomas R. Kailbourn. Pioneer photographers of the far west: a biographical dictionary, 1840-1865. Stanford University Press, 2000; p.253
- 2.Boston Directory. 1864
- 3.King's hand-book of Boston. Boston: 1889. Google books
- 4.Boston register and business directory. 1921
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- Houston, Jourdan. "Francis Seth Frost (1825-1902), Beyond Bierstadt's Shadow." American Art Review, August–September 1994 146–157.
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