George Frost (painter)

Self-portrait around 1800

George Frost ( 1745 - June 28, 1821 in Ipswich ) was a British artist.

Life

George Frost came from Ousden or Barrow , was trained as a builder at his father's building yard and later worked as a post office clerk in Ipswich until he was around 70 years old. He had to take care of buying hay and straw, looking after the horses, using the carriages, etc. His wife Mary, b. Owen, helped with this activity.

As an artist he was self-taught . As a youth he had already done drawing and painting studies from nature; in addition, he had orientated himself on Thomas Gainsborough's landscape templates . His first documented watercolor is from the year 1780. While at first he mainly recorded the area around Ipswich in watercolors, he later also made pencil and charcoal sketches in places such as Felixstowe , Lowestoft , Southwold and Dunwich .

Frost cultivated a friendship with John Constable , with whom he made sketches around 1800 in the area of the Orwell River . He was also an avid art collector and in particular owned numerous works by Gainsborough. Frost died in his house on Common Quay at the age of 78 after several months of painful illness. He left behind his widow, to whom he had been married for 45 years.

His tombstone in St Matthew's Cemetery in Ipswich read:

IN MEMORY OF 
GEORGE FROST, 
WHO DIED JUNE 28, 1821, 
AGED 77 YEARS.

The obituary for Frost, published in The Gentleman's Magazine with no name of the author, was written by his close friend Rev. James Ford, according to John Hayes. After the death of his widow on April 25, 1839, his art collection was auctioned by Robert Garrod on June 7th that same year.

Works

Postal workers

Frost apparently worked mostly in and around Ipswich. Among other things, he created architectural and landscape pictures. The British Museum came into possession of two pencil drawings by Frost and the Art Gallery in Glasgow received an oil painting showing a tree landscape with lovers. Another oil painting became the property of the Brooklyn Museum.

He exhibited six works in 1816 at the Norwich Society of Artists.

literature

George Frost . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 12 : Fiori-Fyt . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1916, p. 530 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ). - (Indicates the year of birth 1754).
Lionel Henry Cust: Frost George . In: Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900 . tape 20 : Forrest-Garner. MacMillan & Co, New York 1889, p. 285–286 ( wikisource - indicates the year of birth 1754).

Web links

Commons : George Frost - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b The inscription on Frost's tombstone: Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century: Consisting of Authentic Memoirs and Original Letters of Eminent Persons; and Intended as a Sequel to the Literary Anecdotes 1831, p. 337.
↑ The statement 1754, which can be found in some sources, could be wrong.
↑ On suffolkpainters.co.uk it can be read without reference to the source that he was baptized on February 21, 1745.
↑ ^a ^b The Gentleman's Magazine . A. Dodd, A. Smith, 1821, pp. 89 f ..
↑ Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century: Consisting of Authentic Memoirs and Original Letters of Eminent Persons; and Intended as a Sequel to the Literary Anecdotes 1831, p. 334.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e FROST, George , at www.suffolkpainters.co.uk
↑ Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century: Consisting of Authentic Memoirs and Original Letters of Eminent Persons; and Intended as a Sequel to the Literary Anecdotes 1831, p. 336.
^ John Hayes, The Drawings of George Frost (1745-1821). In: John Hayes: Master Drawings. Volume 4, No. 2 (Summer 1966), pp. 163-168 and 211-219, p. 163 JSTOR 1552807 .

personal data
SURNAME	Frost, George
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	English painter
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1745
DATE OF DEATH	June 28, 1821
Place of death	Ipswich

[Inschrift-1] The inscription on Frost's tombstone: Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century: Consisting of Authentic Memoirs and Original Letters of Eminent Persons; and Intended as a Sequel to the Literary Anecdotes 1831, p. 337.

[2] The statement 1754, which can be found in some sources, could be wrong.

[3] On suffolkpainters.co.uk it can be read without reference to the source that he was baptized on February 21, 1745.

[gent-4] The Gentleman's Magazine . A. Dodd, A. Smith, 1821, pp. 89 f ..

[5] Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century: Consisting of Authentic Memoirs and Original Letters of Eminent Persons; and Intended as a Sequel to the Literary Anecdotes 1831, p. 334.

[suffolk-6] FROST, George , at www.suffolkpainters.co.uk

[7] Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century: Consisting of Authentic Memoirs and Original Letters of Eminent Persons; and Intended as a Sequel to the Literary Anecdotes 1831, p. 336.

[Hayes-8] John Hayes, The Drawings of George Frost (1745-1821). In: John Hayes: Master Drawings. Volume 4, No. 2 (Summer 1966), pp. 163-168 and 211-219, p. 163 JSTOR 1552807 .