Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

William Edward Frost (1810-1877), Painter

Painter; RA gold medallist; first exhibited at RA, 1836; painted portraits and subject pictures; noted for his sylvan and bacchanalian subjects, with bevies of nude female figures, in the Etty tradition; RA, 1870.


This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Ormond, Early Victorian Portraits, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1973, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.