Born in Dedham, Massachusetts, Alvan Fisher was a pioneer in American
landscape, genre, and animal painting. He was one of the earliest
Americans to rebel against painting only portraits, and as a result,
became a pioneer of genre painting and landscape painting.
However, his real love was the depiction of animals, and he was the
first American artist to paint race horses..
Fisher was a student in Boston of John Ritto Penniman, ornamental
painter. He first went (showing 500 of 1412 characters). |
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