Hugh Frazer (1795–1865): Belfast’s Pioneer Landscape Painter Hugh Frazer, born around 1795 in Dromore, County Down, stands as a pivotal figure in the history of Irish art and landscape painting. His life was marked by intellectual curiosity, artistic dedication, and a fervent belief in the transformative power of education—qualities that profoundly shaped his oeuvre and cemented his legacy as Belfast’s first landscape artist of note.…