Alexander George Fraser (1786–1865)

• Was a Scottish genre and domestic painter.

• Fraser was born in Edinburgh on 7 April 1786.

• His father was Alexander Fraser, a grocer, and his mother, Madgalane Davie.

• He studied painting under John Graham (1754-1817) at the Trustees Drawing Academy of Edinburgh.

• His fellow pupils included William Allan, John Burnet, and David Wilkie.

• He began exhibiting at the Royal Academy in 1810 and moved to London in 1813.

• David Wilkie had preceded him to London and he employed Fraser as an assistant to paint details and still life in his pictures.
• Many of his paintings were humorous and on a small scale.
• On 30 June 1826, he married Janet William Moir in Edinburgh, and Alexander Fraser was their son.
• In 1840, Fraser was elected an associate of the Royal Scottish Academy, an institution he had helped to found.
• From 1848, ill health prevented him from painting and he ceased exhibiting at the Royal Academy. 

• He died at Wood Green, Hornsey, London on 15 February 1865.

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