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Female Life Study

Oil Painting
1842 (painted)
Artist/Maker
Frost, William Edward (painter (artist))

Oil painting, 'Female Life Study', William Edward Frost, 1842


Object details

Category
Paintings
Object type
Oil painting
TitleFemale Life Study
Materials and techniques
Oil on millboard
Oil Paint
Millboard
Oil Painting
Brief description
Oil painting, 'Female Life Study', William Edward Frost, 1842
Dimensions
  • Approx. height: 43.2cm
  • Approx. width: 52.7cm
Dimensions taken from Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, Ronald Parkinson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1990
Styles
British School
Victorian
Marks and inscriptions
'HOWARD - Visitor-/March. 1842/No 13' (Inscribed by the artist in ink (except 'Visitor', in pencil), left)
Object history
Purchased, 1873
Subject depicted
Nude
Bibliographic reference
Parkinson, R., Victoria and Albert Museum, Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, London: HMSO, 1990, p. 108
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
1413-1873

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Record createdMay 2, 2007
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O134405/female-life-study-oil-painting-frost-william-edward/
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