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Oliver Frazer (1808 – April 9, 1864) was an American portrait painter. He was trained by Matthew Harris Jouett before going to Europe, and he became a portrait painter in his home state of Kentucky.[1] He did portraits of many notable Kentuckians like James G. Birney, Edward Morton Le Grand, Colonel William Robertson McKee, and Richard Menefee.[2] His portrait of Henry Clay is in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[3] His papers are held at the University of Kentucky Libraries Special Collections Research Center.[4]

Oliver Frazer
Born	1808
Died	April 9, 1864 Kentucky, U.S.
Occupation	Painter

Further reading

• Floyd, William Barrow (1968). Jouett-Bush-Frazer: Early Kentucky Artists. Lexington, Kentucky. OCLC 448294.
• Price, Samuel Woodson (1902). The Old Masters of the Bluegrass: Jouett, Bush, Grimes, Frazer, Morgan, Hart. Louisville, Kentucky: J. P. Morton & co. OCLC 1747715.

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