| Known for portrait painting, Alanson Fisher also did the occasional fruit still life. He grew up in an impoverished family in New Haven, Vermont, and left home at age ten to become a farm laborer. At age fourteen, he went to New York City where he took work, which damaged his health and led him to leave the city and settle in Middlebury, Connecticut where he became a sign painter and opened a machinist shop, which ultimately failed. In 1832, he married, and supporting a family caused (showing 500 of 1734 characters). |
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