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__NOTOC__ Francis Seth Frost (1825–1902) or F.S. Frost was a painter, photographer, and businessman specializing in artists' materials. Based in
Boston Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- mo ...
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, he travelled widely in the United States. Friends included
Albert Bierstadt Albert Bierstadt (January 7, 1830 – February 18, 1902) was a German-American painter best known for his lavish, sweeping landscapes of the American West. He joined several journeys of the Westward Expansion to paint the scenes. He was not ...
. Frost kept an art studio in the Studio Building on
Tremont Street Tremont Street is a major thoroughfare in Boston, Massachusetts. Tremont Street begins at Government Center in Boston's city center as a continuation of Cambridge Street, and forms the eastern edge of Boston Common. Continuing in a roughly so ...
in Boston. In 1869 with E.H. Adams he began the artists' supply firm, Frost & Adams, which flourished into the 20th century.Boston register and business directory. 1921


References


Further reading

* Houston, Jourdan. "Francis Seth Frost (1825-1902), Beyond Bierstadt's Shadow." American Art Review, August–September 1994 146–157.


External links


Smith College
Francis Seth Frost (1825–1902). South Pass, Wind River Mountains, Wyoming, 1860. Oil on canvas.

. Francis Seth Frost. Moat Mountain, Intervale, New Hampshire. About 1872. Oil on canvas

* New Hampshire Historical Society

* Smith College
South Pass, Wind River Mountains, Wyoming
by Francis Seth Frost


Images

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,'' 19th century Image:1866 Rocky New England coast bySFFrost.jpeg, ''Rocky New England coast'', 1866 Image:FFrost, Mount Washington (JJH FSF300).jpg, '' Mt. Washington'', 19th century
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