Cyril James Fenton Frost (1880–1971) was an English painter who specialised in portraiture. He also worked as a

printmaker Printmaking is the process of creating artworks by printing, normally on paper, but also on fabric, wood, metal, and other surfaces. "Traditional printmaking" normally covers only the process of creating prints using a hand processed technique ...

, as a

silversmith A silversmith is a metalworker who crafts objects from silver. The terms ''silversmith'' and ''goldsmith'' are not exact synonyms, as the techniques, training, history, and guilds are (or were, at least) largely the same but differed in that t ...

, and as a teacher. Frost was born in

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(then in

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), England, in 1880. He studied at Croydon College of Art, being taught there by

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. In 1942, he exhibited the painting "''Tough''" at the

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. ote: the PDF at this URL is wrongly indexed, see second page/ref> Also in 1942, an airman, Flight Sergeant Ernest Little, and his wife were billeted in Frost's

Banbury Banbury is an historic market town and civil parish on the River Cherwell in Oxfordshire, South East England. The parish had a population of 54,335 at the 2021 Census. Banbury is a significant commercial and retail centre for the surrounding ...

home. Frost painted him in his flying gear, and the resultant portrait, "''Return from Dusseldorf''", was exhibited at the RA in 1943.RA Exhibition Catalogue number 267 In 2016, the then owners of the painting,

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, gave it to Little, who had not seen it since it was shown at the RA. Frost also exhibited at the

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. He signed some of his works "C.J. Fenton Frost". He studied silversmithing under George Hart (1882-1973). His silverwork was in the

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style, and his

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consisted of the letters "C.J.F". Frost was also principal of

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, Oxfordshire. He died in 1971. His works are in a number of public collections in the UK, including those of Oxfordshire County Museum, Banbury Town Council and Cherwell District Council. In August 2019 the restoration of one of his portraits, in the ownership of the sitter's son, was shown on the BBC television programme ''

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''. It was restored by Lucia Scalisi.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Frost, Cyril James 1880 births 1971 deaths 20th-century English painters Artists from London People from Croydon Alumni of Croydon College Schoolteachers from London English silversmiths People from Banbury Headmasters of Bloxham School