Samuel melton fisher wikipedia

FISHER, Samuel Melton 1856-1939.

Samuel melton fisher wikipedia

Artist.

Very few people will have heard of the artist Melton Fisher, and those who have might be forgiven for thinking that some of his work was of the late Victorian ‘chocolate box’ variety. However, a closer look at his exceptionally long career will reveal a very wide range of styles.

Fisher was a versatile artist, whose career encompassed contemporary genre, romantic subjects, portraits and examples of British Impressionism, he was a very successful artist commercially; many of his paintings were reproduced as prints.

Melton Fisher, he seldom used his first name, Samuel, grew up in a close-knit artistic Dulwich family, His father was an interior decorator, probably an associate of his neighbour John Crace of the famous interior design business that bore his name.

Both lived in Half Moon Lane, Crace at his house named Springfield and the Fisher family, which included four boys and a girl, lived nearby at Union Villa. It was a talented family, th