 During his life Etty had acquired followers such as Irish painters William Mulready and Daniel Maclise , but both rejected Etty 's preoccupation with nudes . Mulready painted nudes but became best known for domestic genre paintings , while Maclise chose to specialise in more traditional history paintings and exhibited only one nude work in his career . One of the few painters who consciously attempted to continue Etty 's style after his death was William Edward Frost , who had been an acquaintance of Etty 's since 1825 . In the early 1830s Frost painted on commission for Thomas Potts ( whose 1833 commission of Etty to paint his daughter Elizabeth 's portrait had been Etty 's first significant portrait commission ) , and later was commissioned on Etty 's recommendation to paint a portrait of Etty 's cousin Thomas Bodley . Frost successfully imitated Etty throughout his career , to the extent that his figure studies and Etty 's are often misattributed to each other . Although Frost eventually became a Royal Academician in 1870 , by this time Etty 's style of painting had badly fallen out of fashion . 
