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FISHER, ALVAN (1792–1863)

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 427 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FISHER, ALVAN (1792–1863) , See also:American portrait-painter, was See also:born at Needham, See also:Massachusetts, on the 9th of See also:August 1792. At the See also:age of eighteen he was a clerk in a See also:country See also:shop, and subsequently was employed by the See also:village See also:house painter, but at the age of twenty-two he began to paint portrait heads, alternating with rural scenes and animals, for which he found patrons at modest prices. In ten years he had saved enough to go to See also:Europe, studying at the See also:Paris See also:schools and copying in the galleries of the Louvre. Upon his return he became one of the recognized See also:group of Massachusetts portrait-painters. Along with Doughty, See also:Harding and See also:Alexander, in 1831, he held an See also:exhibition of his See also:work in Boston—perhaps the first See also:joint display by painters ever held in that See also:city. Though he had considerable See also:talent for landscape, a lack of patronage for such work caused him to confine himself to See also:portraiture, in which he was moderately successful. He died at See also:Dedham, See also:Mass., on the 16th of See also:February 1863.

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