藝術家Jonathan FISHER (1768-1847) 生平簡歷

出生地： New Braintree, MA

死亡地点： Blue Hill, ME

地址： Blue Hill, ME

职业： Wood engraver, portrait, and landscape painter

工作： Many of Fisher's works, including oils, watercolors, drawings, journals, woodcuts, and handmade furniture are located at his former home, now the Parson Fisher House (Blue Hill, ME); there are also oils at the Farnsworth Museum (Rockland, ME)

评论： Jonathan Fisher graduated from Harvard College in 1792 and from 1796 to 1837 served as pastor of the Blue Hill (Maine) Congregational Church. He was a man of many aspects: clergyman, author, poet, linguist, inventor, farmer, surveyor, architect, naturalist, missionary, teacher. His artistic work included a self-portrait, a copy of Henry Dawkins' view of Nassau Hall, Princeton (NJ), a series of wood engravings showing the animals and other creatures of the Bible, a number of views of Harvard in watercolor, and at least twenty oils. He died in Blue Hill on September 22, 1847.

来源： G&W; Chase, Jonathan Fisher, Maine Parson, 227-231; Fisher, The Fisher Genealogy; Bangor Hist. Magazine. (June 1889), 2; Sprague's Journal of Maine History, I:5 (Jan. 1914); Harvard University, Quinquennial Cat.; repro., Portfolio (March 1955), 150. Lipman and Winchester.