Donald Hamilton Fraser RA (30 July 1929, London – 2 September 2009), was a British artist famed for his abstract landscape paintings.
From 1949 to 1952, Fraser trained at London's Saint Martin's School of Art[1] together with contemporaries including Frank Auerbach, Sandra Blow, Sheila Fell, Leon Kossoff, Jack Smith, and Joe Tilson.
[2] Anthony Blunt and John Piper were among assessors that awarded Hamilton Fraser a one-year French government scholarship in Paris in 1953.
[3] Carel Weight hired Fraser as a tutor at the Royal College of Art in 1958 where he continued until 1983 with fellow teachers Peter Blake and Julian Trevelyan.
Fraser's students at the Royal included Patrick Caulfield, David Hockney, Ron B. Kitaj, and Thérèse Oulton.
Fraser also made chalk and wash drawing of dancers that contrasted in style with his paintings and highlighted his diverse talents.