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   Alvan Fisher was a Boston painter who studied
decorative painting on furniture with John Ritto Penniman early in his career.
He aspired to paint pictures, however, and
worked hard to shake off that "mechanical, ornamental touch." By
1816 Fisher was producing scenes of stables and barnyards that were novel at
that time and showed his skill in painting animals and the effects of light.
He had enough portrait commissions as well to
enable him to make an adequate living and to become well established in the
Boston artistic community.
The Pennsylvania Academy
of the Fine Arts
first exhibited Fisher's work in 1817. Later his
work was shown at the National Academy
of Design, where he was elected an honorary
member in 1827, and at the Boston Athenaeum.
Throughout his career, Fisher traveled extensively along the east coast of
the United States, and in 1825 he visited Europe briefly, taking numerous
sketches and notes. Fisher was in the White
Mountains with Thomas Doughty and other Boston artists prior to 1856.
Working in a romantic tradition of the early
Hudson River School, Fisher's landscapes were sometimes imaginary scenes and
often featured animal as well as human forms.
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Artist photo courtesy of Del Fillmore
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