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Artist: William Edward Frost (British, 1810 – 1877)
Title: Disarming of Cupid
Medium: Antique engraving on wove paper after the original by master engraver Peter Lightfoot (British, 1805-1885).
Year: 1858
Signature: Signed in the plate.
Condition: Excellent
Dimensions: Image Size – 6 3/4 x 10 inches.
Framed dimensions: Approximately 15 x 19 inches.
Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials.
Additional notes: This is not a modern print. It was hand pulled from the copper plate more than 160 years ago. The strike is crisp and the lines are sharp.
Extra Information: Cupid as a youth, sleeping naked at the foot of a tree, on the ground in a forest glade, surrounded by nymphs, one of which kneels in front of him to left, quietly stealing the quiver which lies at his feet, one nymph on the right holding a spear.
Artist Biography:Augustus William Edward Frost was an English painter of the Victorian era. Virtually alone among English artists in the middle Victorian period, he devoted his practice to the portrayal of the female nude. Frost was educated in the schools of the Royal Academy, beginning in 1829; he established a reputation as a portrait painter before branching into historical and mythological subjects, including the subgenre of fairy painting that was characteristic of Victorian art. 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.
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
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