Eliphalet frazer andrews biography of rory
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She was the daughter of Charles Ernest Frederick Minnigerode (1816–1891), rector of St. Paul's Church in Richmond, Virginia, and she was active in the Daughters of the Confederacy. He was born in Steubenville, Ohio in 1835 and died in Washington on March 15,1915. He studied with Ludwig Knaus, at the Dusseldorf Academy and while in Paris at the Ecole de Beaux-Arts with Leon Bonnat (1838-1922).
He received his initial art training at Marietta College in Ohio (Lilly Martin Spencer also received her initial training at Marietta).
The project was embroiled in litigation, and eleven paintings were sold in 1910 for unpaid storage fees by a Covington, Kentucky warehouse. Married Emma Stewart, 1857. Most ended up in Virginia (such as that of Gen. Robert E. Lee in the Westmoreland County Courthouse), but three are in the collection of the Kentucky Museum at Western Kentucky University.
In 1917, his widow presented his portrait of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest to the Confederate Memorial in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
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Gave free instruction at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1877–87. Served as director and instructor of art at the Corcoran School of Art, 1887–1902. Had a studio-house on Scott Circle, and a country house, "Vaucluse," in Alexandria, Va.Died March 19, 1915, in Washington, D. C.
Andrew J. Cosentino and Henry H. Glassie The Capital Image: Painters in Washington, 1800–1915 (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press for the National Museum of American Art, 1983)
Eliphalet Frazer Andrews is considered an American portrait and general picture painter.
The Confederate Memorial Association, led by Virginia lieutenant governor James Taylor Ellyson and financed by Thomas Fortune Ryan did build its headquarters (the Confederate Memorial Institute a/k/a "Battle Abbey") in Richmond, which is now the Virginia Historical Society. Lived in Washington, D.C., 1876–1915. His art is housed at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Ohio State Capitol, and numerous paintings at The White House and the United States Capitol.
Born in Steubenville, Ohio, to Dr.
Alexander Hull and Eliza Ann (Frazer) Andrews, 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.
William Wilson Corcoran hired Andrews to establish an art instruction curriculum at his Corcoran School of Art.
Andrews served as its director, 1877–1902, and later as the Corcoran Art Gallery until his death. Studied with Lüdwig Knaus and Heinrich Mücke in Düsseldorf, 1859–63, and with Léon Bonnat in Paris, 1863. Married Marietta Minnigerode, 1895. Senator and Governor of Maryland), commissioned Eliphalet Frazer Andrews to complete a portrait of his wife (shown here), Mary French Howard, in 1908.
Graduated from Marietta College, Ohio. Under the patronage of the late W.W Corcoran, Andrews founded the Corcoran School of Art, of which he was the director from 1877 to 1902. Thus, several of his portraits, are in The White House collection, including posthumous full-length portraits of Martha Washington (illustration), Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Johnson.
Eliphalet Fraser Andrews
Artist
born Steubenville, OH 1835-died Washington, DC 1915
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Born June 11, 1835, in Steubenville, Ohio. 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.