Alvan Fisher. Alvan Fisher was one of the United States's pioneers in landscape painting and genre works.
He was born in Needham, Massachusetts, the fourth of Aaron and Lucy Fisher's six sons. He moved with members of his family to Dedham, Massachusetts, around 1805 where he worked as a clerk in his brother's store.
After that, he always called Dedham his home. At the age of eighteen, he determined, with the support of his family, to become a painter and began an apprenticeship with John Ritto Penniman in Boston, Massachusetts, along with other young artists such as Charles Codman.
There he learned portrait painting while assisting Penniman in decorating carriages and painting commercial signs. Alvan Fisher.
View of Springfield on the Connecticut River, 1819. Oil on canvas. Brooklyn Museum In 1815, at the age of twenty-two, he began his professional career, opening a studio on School Street in Boston. During his first ten years as a painter, he set the tone of his entire career. He traveled extensively painting landscapes, rural scenes, portraits of animals, and portraits of people. The growing popularity of landscape and genre painting coincided with the growing population of the United States and an economically improved middle class. This was the age of democracy and people wanted art that depicted their own contemporary life. In his book, Mirror to the American Past: A Survey of American
He was born in Needham, Massachusetts, the fourth of Aaron and Lucy Fisher's six sons. He moved with members of his family to Dedham, Massachusetts, around 1805 where he worked as a clerk in his brother's store.
After that, he always called Dedham his home. At the age of eighteen, he determined, with the support of his family, to become a painter and began an apprenticeship with John Ritto Penniman in Boston, Massachusetts, along with other young artists such as Charles Codman.
There he learned portrait painting while assisting Penniman in decorating carriages and painting commercial signs. Alvan Fisher.
View of Springfield on the Connecticut River, 1819. Oil on canvas. Brooklyn Museum In 1815, at the age of twenty-two, he began his professional career, opening a studio on School Street in Boston. During his first ten years as a painter, he set the tone of his entire career. He traveled extensively painting landscapes, rural scenes, portraits of animals, and portraits of people. The growing popularity of landscape and genre painting coincided with the growing population of the United States and an economically improved middle class. This was the age of democracy and people wanted art that depicted their own contemporary life. In his book, Mirror to the American Past: A Survey of American
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