Oliver Frazer

{{short description|American painter}}

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Oliver Frazer (1808 – April 9, 1864) was an American portrait painter. He was trained by Matthew Harris Jouett before going to Europe, and he became a portrait painter in his home state of Kentucky.{{cite news |title=Death of a Kentucky Artist |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/592166090/?terms=%22Oliver%2BFrazer%22 |accessdate=July 25, 2020 |work=The Courier-Journal |date=April 21, 1864|page=2|via=Newspapers.com}} He did portraits of many Kentuckians such as James G. Birney, Edward Morton Le Grand, William Robertson McKee, and Richard Menefee.{{cite news |last1=Bier |first1=Justin |title=Art: Frazer Portraits Are On Exhibit At Speed |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/110362673/?terms=%22Oliver%2BFrazer%22 |accessdate=July 25, 2020 |work=The Courier-Journal |date=February 17, 1952|page=55|via=Newspapers.com}} His portrait of Henry Clay is in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.{{cite web |title=Henry Clay ca. 1840 Oliver Frazer |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/10905 |website=The Met |accessdate=July 25, 2020}} His papers are held at the University of Kentucky Libraries Special Collections Research Center.{{cite web |title=Oliver Frazer family papers |url=https://exploreuk.uky.edu/fa/findingaid/?id=xt7sbc3swq2f |website=University of Kentucky Libraries |accessdate=July 25, 2020}}