ALVAN See also:

• FISHER
• ALVAN FISHER (1792–1863)
• FISHER, GEORGE PARK (1827-1909)
• FISHER, JOHN (c. 1469-1535)
• FISHER, JOHN ARBUTHNOT FISHER, 1ST BARON

FISHER (1792–1863)  , See also:

• AMERICAN

American portrait-painter, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Needham, See also:

• MASSACHUSETTS (an Indian name, originally applied to a tribe of Indians)

Massachusetts, on the 9th of See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1792 . At the See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age of eighteen he was a clerk in a See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country See also:

• SHOP

shop, and subsequently was employed by the See also:

• VILLAGE

village See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

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

Europe, studying at the See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris See also:

• SCHOOLS

schools and copying in the galleries of the Louvre . Upon his return he became one of the recognized See also:

• GROUP

group of Massachusetts portrait-painters . Along with Doughty, See also:

• HARDING, CHESTER (1792-1866)
• HARDING, JAMES DUFFIELD (1798-1863)

Harding and See also:

• ALEXANDER
• ALEXANDER (1461-1506)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OF BATTENBERG) (1857-1893)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OsxENOVici) (1876-1903)
• ALEXANDER, ARCHIBALD (1772—1851)
• ALEXANDER, FRANCIS (1800—1881)
• ALEXANDER, GEORGE (1858— )
• ALEXANDER, JOHN WHITE (1856- )
• ALEXANDER, JOSEPH ADDISON (18o9—186o)
• ALEXANDER, SIR JAMES EDWARD (1803—1885)
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM (1824— )
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM LINDSAY (1808—1884)

Alexander, in 1831, he held an See also:

• EXHIBITION

exhibition of his See also:

• WORK

work in See also:

• BOSTON
• BOSTON, THOMAS (1676-1732)

Boston—perhaps the first See also:

• JOINT (through Fr. from Lat. junctum, jungere, to join)

joint display by painters ever held in that See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city . Though he had considerable See also:

• TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental

talent for landscape, a lack of patronage for such work caused him to confine himself to See also:

• PORTRAITURE

portraiture, in which he was moderately successful . He died at See also:

• DEDHAM

Dedham, See also:

• MASS (O.E. maesse; Fr. messe; Ger. Messe; Ital. messa; from eccl. Lat. missa)
• MASS, IN

Mass., on the 16th of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1863 .