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Early work
Hugh Frazer is recognised as the first significant landscape painter from Ulster, and his works are valuable geographical records of locations close to Belfast and in the Lagan valley. In 1838, Frazer exhibited eight paintings in the RHA, He is well known for his portrait work. One of these eight includes a genre piece ‘The faction fight’, In 2014, to commemorate the war's millennium, one of his more complex works, a big canvas from 1826 showing the battle of Clontarf, was on display in the Casino, Marino. He wrote a brief essay on painting in 1825 whilst he was still a young man, urging local textile workers to receive training in design and colour theory in order to add significantly more value to the raw resources.

Later work
The Belfast Association of Artists was founded in 1836 by Frazer and others, notably Andrew Nicholl, and he served as its first president. The society held its first exhibition in 1836, followed by two more the following years, but the effort failed due to a lack of public support.A review in a catholic newspaper in 1839 praised Frazer's altarpiece for the Catholic chapel at Dromore. He had given a series of lectures on the "education of the eye" in 1851 at the Mechanics' Institute in Belfast. Ten years later, in 1861, when he resigned from the RHA, following this, his name somehow doesn't emerge as an exhibitor and he is not mentioned again.

Life until death
It is unknown what happened to Frazer and if he ever did marry.