Excerpt from Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. 7: Fraunces-Grimké
Frazer's success in Lexington was immediate. He demanded fifty dollars a portrait, the highest price in the city, and had no lack of patronage. His pictures of Henry Clay, Chief Justice George Robertson, M. T. Scott, president of the Bank of Kentucky, Joel T. Hart, and the group of his own wife and children were particularly felici tous. His work is marked by simplicity of line and firmness of texture, and generally preserves the virtues of eighteenth-century American painting. Personally, Frazer was eccentric and original, given to a proverbial irony and a not unbecoming hauteur. The uneven quality of his work was due in part to his temperamental in ability to force himself to a standard, and in part to his sight, which in his later years was badly impaired. He died in Lexington.
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