Born in Scone, Perthshire, William Miller Frazer studied at the Glasgow School of Art and later went on to become one of the best-loved artists of his day, renowned for his loose impressionistic landscapes of the Norfolk Broads, The Fens, and more especially of the lowlands of Scotland, Perth and Fifeshire in particular.

 During a long artistic career, he showed more than 125 works at the Glasgow Institute, 182 at the Royal Scottish Academy, 3 at the Royal Academy and others at prestigious galleries and institutions all over the UK. Frazer was unique in that, having shown at the Royal Scottish Academy for the first time in 1884, he went on to see his works hung there for the next 73 consecutive years – a remarkable record that remains unsurpassed.