biography of Eliphalet Frazer ANDREWS (1835-1915)

Birth place: Steubenville, OH

Death place: Wash., DC

Addresses: Ohio, 1863; Wash., DC, 1876-1915

Profession: Portrait painter, instructor

Studied: Marietta College (grad. 1853); Bonnat, Paris; Düsseldorf Academy, Germany (before 1863)

Exhibited: NAD, 1864, 1885; Centennial Expo., Phila., 1876; CGA, 1878 (full length portrait of Mrs. Washington); Soc. of Washington Artists; Washington WCC

Member: Metropolitan Club, Wash., DC; Washington WCC (officer); Soc. of Washington Artists (officer)

Work: portraits of many U.S. presidents, including William Henry Harrison, Rutherford B. Hayes and Andrew Johnson ó some are held in the White House; CGA; NMMA; Cosmos Club; U.S. Capitol; U.S. Naval Acad.; U.S. Military Acad.; College of William and Mary

Comments: On his return to the U.S. from study in Paris and Germany, Andrews returned to Ohio but by 1876 had settled in Washington, DC. Under the patronage of the late W.W. Corcoran he founded the Corcoran School of Art, of which he was the director from 1877 until 1902. He was married to one of his students, Marietta Minnigerode, in 1895.

Sources: G&W; Thieme-Becker; Clement and Hutton; Art Annual, XII (1915), 255, gives March 19 as date of death, while Art News, March 27, 1915, gives March 20; Artists Year Book, 4; NAD Cat. 1864-1887 (courtesy Mary Bartlett Cowdrey). More recently, see McMahan, Artists of Washington, DC.