William Edward Frost

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. • Illustration — Sabrina and the Nymphs, 1845 • Illustration — The Disarming of Cupid, 1850 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

William Edward Frost studied at Royal Academy of Arts. The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is painting and printmaking. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are fairy. The authority associates the name with Victorian painting. Work by William Edward Frost is recorded in the collections of Art Institute of Chicago, Tate, National Gallery of Canada, Yale Center for British Art and Victoria and Albert Museum.