Eliphalet Frazer Andrews
| Eliphalet Frazer Andrews | |
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| Born |
June 8, 1835 Steubenville, Ohio |
| Died | March 15, 1915 (aged 79) Washington, D.C. |
| Resting place | Union Cemetery |
| Known for | painting |
| Spouse(s) | Marietta Fauntleroy Minnigerode |
Eliphalet Frazer Andrews (11 June 1835 – 15 March 1915), an American painter known primarily as a portraitist, established an art instruction curriculum at the behest of William Wilson Corcoran at his Corcoran School of Art, and served as its director, 1877–1902. He received many commissions to copy images of famous Americans, those copies are displayed by federal, state and local institutions, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Born in Steubenville, Ohio, to Dr. Alexander Hull and Eliza Ann (Frazer) Andrews, he received early training at Marietta College in Ohio, and further study in the Royal Prussian Academy, Berlin, in the atelier of Ludwig Knaus, at the Düsseldorf Academy and with Leon Bonnat at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris.
Following the election of his friend Rutherford B. Hayes as President Andrews moved to Washington, D.C.
William Wilson Corcoran hired Andrews to establish an art instruction curriculum at his Corcoran School of Art. Andrews served as its director, 1877–1902, and later as the Corcoran Art Gallery until his death. Pupils included Catharine Carter Critcher.
Several federal government agencies, mostly through the Architect of the Capitol, Edward Clark, commissioned Andrews to make copies of existing portraits. Thus, several of his portraits, are in The White House collection, including posthumous full-length portraits of Martha Washington (illustration), Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Johnson. His Poppies and Edge of a Stream are at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
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