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1 of 1977 Oliver Frazer

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Name	Oliver Frazer
Dates & places of birth and death	Born: 1808 (Kentucky) Died: 1864 (Kentucky)
Notes	By the 1840s, Frazer had become Kentucky's preeminent portrait artist. The first Kentucky artist to study aboard, Oliver Frazer was a pupil of Matthew Harris Jouett and Thomas Sully of Philadelphia. Supported by a well-off uncle, Frazer studied in Paris, France in the 1830s before returning to Kentucky and opening a studio in Lexington in 1838. Like Jouett, Frazer was concerned with painting from life but he was influenced by Romanticism, which he encountered in France. Frazer married into a wealthy family and was a popular portrait artist until his eyesight waned in the 1850s. He was not a prolific artist but painted many notable Kentuckians, including Henry Clay.
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