Jacob Frymire

Little is known of Frymire's early life or training, and what details of his career are known have been traced either through the signatures on his paintings or via local property records in Franklin and Cumberland Counties, Pennsylvania.

His father moved to Franklin County, Pennsylvania, and Jacob had followed him there by the mid-1790s, traveling as well to Maryland and Virginia in search of work.

Frymire owned property in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, and lived there with his wife, Sarah, and family, which grew to ten children, one born posthumously.

[1] Stylistically Frymire is typical of the itinerant portrait painters active in the southern United States during the early 19th century.

[3] His portrait of Amelia (Heiskell) Lauck, dated 1810-1815, is held by the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts.