Charles Fraser

Charles Fraser (August 20, 1782 – October 5, 1860) was an American artist who specialized in portrait painting. but afterwards devoted himself to art. He attended the classical academy of Bishop Robert Smith in Charleston along with Thomas Sully.

Career At various points in his career, he was associated with Washington Allston and John Stevens Cogdell. In 1806, he visited Newport, Rhode Island where he met up with John Trumbull and Gilbert Stuart. He also delivered an address on the dedication of a new building on the College of Charleston campus in 1828.

In 1830, he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Honorary Academician, and elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1834.

Fraser died at Charleston in 1860.

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