About Robert Winchester Fraser
Robert Winchester Fraser (1848-1906) was born in Aberdeen, Scotland and was a landscape watercolour painter. He was from a family of artists, but he was the most poplar and well known.
He moved to Bedford in 1861, where he spent four years at the local grammar school before taking up a position as a clerk in the Fire Assurance Office.
He then later moved to London in 1873, where he established himself as an artist, exhibiting watercolours at both the Society of British Artists and the Dudley Gallery, and publishing his first illustrations for Good Words.
Fraser exhibited at the Royal Academy regularly, the Institute of Painters in Watercolours, and also at the Bedford Annual Art Exhibitions.
In 1885, he moved out of London and lived in a few places including Bromley, Hemingford Grey, Hampton Hill and Soham.
Later in the 1880s, he travelled around Europe and to the West Indies.
His two sons, Robert James Winchester Fraser and Francis George Gordon Fraser, both became artists too.
