Classical figure painting gathers myth, portraiture and narrative onto canvas and panel across centuries of European tradition.
Several ladies and gentlemen immortalised centuries ago now peer out at modern rooms from inside nineteenth-century gilt frames.
![Pen and Ink Sketch - Female Nudes by William Edward Frost [1810-1877]](https://www.sellingantiques.co.uk/photosnew/dealer_kendallhouse/dealer_kendallhouse_full_1758970795762-8493507346.jpg)
