Alexander Fraser (painter)

Fraser was the biographer of the Scottish artist, Horatio McCulloch.

He married Jane Duncan on 15 April 1859 in Edinburgh and they had a son and daughter.

[3] According to Edward Pinnington's biography of Fraser, he was brought up at Dunoon on the coast of Argyll, and in an unfinished autobiography, he described his early passion for art: His father's paints, oils, palettes and brushes were "the tools of childhood" and not surprisingly he resolved that "I will be a painter, and nothing else.

'[4] In 1858 he was elected an associate of the Royal Scottish Academy and became an academician in 1862.

He took up residence permanently in 1880 where he was doing his best work, most of it being done at the Royal Scottish Academy.