Eliphalet Frazer Andrews

He received many commissions to create both original portraits and copies of images of deceased famous Americans, which are displayed by federal, state, and local institutions.

[4] Born in Steubenville, Ohio, to Dr. Alexander Hull[5] and Eliza Ann (Frazer) Andrews,[6] he received early training at Marietta College in Ohio, and further study in the Royal Prussian Academy, Berlin, in the atelier of Ludwig Knaus, at the Düsseldorf Academy and with Leon Bonnat at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris.

[11] Several federal government agencies, mostly through the Architect of the Capitol, Edward Clark, commissioned Andrews to make copies of existing portraits.

[15] The project was embroiled in litigation, and eleven paintings were sold in 1910 for unpaid storage fees by a Covington, Kentucky warehouse.

Senator and Governor of Maryland), commissioned Eliphalet Frazer Andrews to complete a portrait of his wife, Mary French Howard, in 1908.

Andrews’ portrait of Mary French Howard, 1908. Howard was the spouse of Clarance Randolph Howard. This original portrait is one of the only known surviving commissioned paintings by Andrews of a non-political or military official.
Rutherford B. Hayes portrait by Eliphalet Frazer Andrews, 1881
Andrews' full-length portrait of Martha Washington (1878), based on a head and bust oil sketch from life by Gilbert Stuart , shows anachronistic details of costume and the American Renaissance chair.