Lot 386: William Mark Fisher RA (1841-1923), 'A SOUTHERN

William Mark Fisher RA (1841-1923), 'A SOUTHERN GARDEN' Signed l.l., watercolour 23 x 29cm Exhibited: Anglo-American Exposition, 1914. Fisher was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1841 and studied under George Cass and George Innes. He travelled to Paris, where he met many other artists, including Alfred Sisley. In 1872, he left France for England, where he would not only take up permanent residence, but also find great success. He lived initially in London, but soon found the countryside was more to his liking and moved to Sussex. By 1901, he was living in Hatfield Heath, Essex, where he would remain for the rest of his life. He was a frequent exhibitor at the Royal Academy, showing more than 100 works. Fisher is considered one of the first artists to bring the Impressionist style to England and was described by George Moore, in 1893, as 'England's greatest living landscape painter'.