One of a family of  artists, Fraser was born in Scotland, but moved to Bedford in 1861. He became a popular landscape artist and exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1876 and 1892. Specialising in rural  scenes of fields and rivers in the home counties and Holland, Fraser's works are often confused with very similar paintings by one of his two sons, Robert James Winchester Fraser. In his later years he became "More fond of the bottle than was good for him" and he died in Gibraltar in 1906, while on his way to visit a brother in Malaga, Spain.  

Cirket, Alan F., 'The Fraser Brothers - Artists of Bedford', Bedfordshire Magazine, Vol 16 (1978), pp.273-6

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