Sketch

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Oliver Frazer, Sketch of Henry Clay, ca. 1840s. Drawing.

Oliver Frazer (1808-1864) was a Fayette County native who studied with Kentucky portraitist Matthew Harris Jouett and well-known painter Thomas Sully. Frazer studied painting abroad before establishing a studio in Lexington; he painted Henry Clay multiple times.

The image shown here is a preparatory sketch for a portrait of Clay.