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Early life and family
Hugh Frazer was a landscape and portrait painter born 1793 in Dromore, which is currently part of Northern Ireland. Dromore is Situated in the Ulster area, 27 km southwest from Belfast, the capital city of Northern Ireland. Frazer was known for his landscape paintings and was the first painter from the Ulster region who got noted for his work. He was admitted to Dublin Society’s drawing school in 1812. The Dublin society itself was founded in 1731 and had a big interest in the Fine Arts, such as painting and drawing. The drawing school was founded in 1740 and the French artist James Mannin is known to have been teaching ornamental and landscape painting to the boys attending the academy, many of them becoming famous in England.

The following year Frazer contributed to an exhibition together with the school’s Society of Artists in Hawkins Street, where the Dublin Society’s drawing school was situated in between the years 1796 - 1815. He lived in Dromore, Belfast and Dublin during the following years. Frazer’s parents were Hugh Frazer senior and Agnes Frazer (born Dickson). It is believed that Hugh Frazer senior worked as an attorney which implies that they had money within the family, who was also well known and connected locally.

Frazer’s mother - Agnes Frazer - was the daughter of Joseph Dickson and Jane Colville. Agnes Frazer’s grandfather - Jane Colville’s father - was named Alexander Colville and died in the year of 1777. He was known for being a presbyterian minister - meaning he was part of the presbyterian church - who was against synod being introduced in Dromore, the hometown of the Frazer family.

More distant family connections to Frazer possibly include Charles Dickson, John Mitchel and John Frazer, the latest living during the same time as High Frazer, from 1825 until 1884. He too was from Dromore but later lived in Sydney, Australia as a merchant and philanthropist.