George Frost (1754–1821) was an English landscape painter who lived in

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, Suffolk, England.

Biography

Frost was the son of a builder at

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, and was originally brought up to his father's business. He subsequently obtained a post in the office of the Blue Coach at

''Dictionary of National Biography'' 1885–1900 where he worked until about eight years before his death.

Career as an artist

Frost had a natural and early love of

drawing Drawing is a form of visual art in which an artist uses instruments to mark paper or other two-dimensional surface. Drawing instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, various kinds of paints, inked brushes, colored pencils, crayons, ...

, and was self-taught as an artist. According to his obituary in the ''Gentleman's Magazine'':

His productions, and more particularly his Drawings, were admirable, and exhibited abundant proofs of the character and genius of a Master. He studied nature with the closest attention, and in his attempts to delineate her beauties, was eminently successful. He was an accurate observer of her in all her appearances, and possessed a characteristic touch for all her forms. The subjects which he selected were such as did credit to his taste and judgment; and whatever came from his pencil bore the impress of originality and truth, and evinced, in a bold and masterly manner,the local character and features of the County In which he resided.

He was a great admirer and imitator of Gainsborough, and possessed some paintings and drawings by him, notably "The Mall", of which he executed a careful copy when in his 77th year. He was also a close friend of

John Constable John Constable (; 11 June 1776 – 31 March 1837) was an English landscape painter in the Romanticism, Romantic tradition. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for revolutionising the genre of landscape painting with his pictures of Dedha ...

. His employment at Ipswich caused him to limit his subjects to that town and its neighbourhood, and he was little known elsewhere.

Gallery

George Frost The Common Quay, Ipswich 1820.jpg, The Common Quay, Ipswich 1820 George Frost, Wolsey's Gate, Ipswich.png, Wolsey's Gate, Ipswich,

Death

Frost died at his home on the Common Quay at Ipswich on 28 June 1821 after a painful illness.

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Paintings by George Frost
1754 births 1821 deaths 18th-century English painters English male painters 19th-century English painters People from the Borough of St Edmundsbury English landscape painters Artists from Ipswich 19th-century English male artists 18th-century English male artists {{England-painter-stub