William Edward Frost

victorian-era

William Edward Frost Paintings 1810 - 1877 English painter, Victorian Era

The Sea Cave, 1851

oil on canvas, oval 41 x 47 cm, 16 x 18 in.

Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum, Bournemouth

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OIL PAINTING: The Sea Cave, 1851
Frost was widely regarded as the most successful follower of william Etty in painting small fancy pictures of Miltonic and Spenserian subjects. This image of a Nereid, with its carefully rendered reflected lights and shadows, was exhibited accompanied by some appropriate lines from the poet Thomas Doubleday. The painting bears all the hallmarks of Frost's style, being delicate, charming and classically refined: qualities which were perceived to be in keeping with the painter's own gentle, diffident character.