Background
Andrews, Eliphalet Frazer was born on June 11, 1835 in Steubenville, Ohio, United States. Son of Alexander Hull and Eliza Ann (Frazer) Andrews.
Andrews, Eliphalet Frazer was born on June 11, 1835 in Steubenville, Ohio, United States. Son of Alexander Hull and Eliza Ann (Frazer) Andrews.
Graduate Marietta (O.) College, 1853. Student art in Europe under Ludwig Knaus, and at Düsseldorf Academy.
He was commissioned to paint images of famous Americans for several government agencies, many of them copies of existing portraits commissioned through the Architect of the Capitol, Edward Clark, and consequently several of his portraits, the posthumous full-length portraits of Martha Washington (illustration) and Thomas Jefferson and of Andrew Johnson are in The White House collection, Washington, District of Columbia His Poppies and Edge of a Stream are at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Born in Steubenville, Ohio, to Doctor 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. He died in Washington, District of Columbia
He was a member of the Metropolitan Club in Washington, District of Columbia
Married Emma Stewart, 1857 (died 1889). Married second, Marietta Minnigerode, September 25, 1895.