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    • WILLIAM FISHER (1817- 1895) PAINTING
      Dec. 31, 2016

      WILLIAM FISHER (1817- 1895) PAINTING

      Est: $1,000 - $2,000

      Artist: William Fisher (1817- 1895) Signature: Size:  Image: 36 x 28 inches            Frame:48 x 39 inches  Medium: Oil on canvas

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    • WILLIAM FISHER (1817-1895); watercolour on board,
      Oct. 01, 2014

      WILLIAM FISHER (1817-1895); watercolour on board,

      Est: £250 - £350

      WILLIAM FISHER (1817-1895); watercolour on board, Georgian gentleman holding a snuff box, signed lower right hand corner ''Fisher 1846'', 20.25 x 15cm, framed and glazed.

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    • William Fisher, 1817 - 1895 "Molly Bawn" portrait
      Jul. 09, 2014

      William Fisher, 1817 - 1895 "Molly Bawn" portrait

      Est: €6,000 - €9,000

      William Fisher, 1817 - 1895 "Molly Bawn" portrait of a young girl seated by the fireside, in a cottage interior. A spinning wheel to the left. Her suitor standing outside by the window, under the moonlight. Oil on canvas (unlined), Exhibited R.H.A. 1850 No. 37, The scene depicts the tale of Molly Bawn who made for herself a cloak of white wool. One evening, under moonlight she went off for a surprise rendezvous with her beau, sometimes called Johnny Randle. On returning from an unsuccessful days shooting, he spotted a white form amongst the bushes. Mistaking this shape for a swan (in some versions, a young deer), he fired and killed his beloved Molly Bawn. At his subsequent trial, Molly appeared as a ghost and explained that it was an honest and tragic mistake. The story of Molly Bawn has been told in verse and song since the eighteenth-century and still features in the repertoire of artistes. William Fisher was born in Cork and showed promise as an artist from an early age. In his youth he travelled to Italy and became a Member of the Florentine Academy. He moved to London in 1840 and exhibited at The Royal Academy and The British Institution. Between 1843 and 1862 he sent 15 works to The Royal Hibernian Academy. He painted portraits and figure subjects. His work can be seen in The Cork Art Gallery and The National Portrait Gallery in London. 40 x 50 inches 102 x 127 cm.

      Sheppards
    • William Fisher, 1817-1895 Portrait of G.F. Marx
      Nov. 27, 2013

      William Fisher, 1817-1895 Portrait of G.F. Marx

      Est: -

      William Fisher, 1817-1895 Portrait of G.F. Marx aged 15 months, circa 1850 Oil on canvas 22 x 18 inches

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    • Attributed to William Fisher (1817-1895) Molly
      Mar. 26, 2013

      Attributed to William Fisher (1817-1895) Molly

      Est: €10,000 - €15,000

      Attributed to William Fisher (1817-1895) Molly Bawn Oil on canvas, 105 x 131cm (41¼ x 51½'') Inscribed ''J. Fisher 'Molly Bawn' on slip. It is thought that this is the work 'Molly Bawn' exhibited at the RHA 1850, Cat. No. 37 by William Fisher According to Strickland, Fisher was born in Cork, where he made a name from an early age for his portrait and subject paintings. He left to study in Italy, becoming a member of the Florentine Academy and he subsequently settled in London. He showed about 48 titles at London's Royal Academy between 1840 and 1884, and nearly a third as many again at Dublin's Royal Hibernian Academy. Since other works bearing his signature have yet to emerge, the titles he showed at these prominent galleries, together with more at the British Institution and The Cork Exhibition indicate that portraiture was his prime occupation. His portrait of Walter Savage Landor (of 1839), in the collection of The National Portrait Gallery, although of an altogether different, darker figure, is not dissimilar in style & brushwork to this one. Here a young peasant girl is the focus for the narrative. Her lack of a wedding ring, and the fact that she does not wear a white bonnet, tell us that she is unmarried. She is lit by a warm, low glow of firelight from the right, where the handles of some tongs can be glimpsed, beneath some onions and fish: the smoke helping to preserve them. The interior as well as her clothes, with her petticoats tucked up around her waist, were all typical of nineteenth century rural Ireland. Low Irish or Dutch spinning wheels such as hers had been introduced into Ireland by the ruling English to improve the quality of flax spinning, and hence of linen. Spinners used a foot treadle to turn the wheel, thus allowing both hands to feed the thread evenly onto the spindle. Here the bundle of carefully prepared flax can be seen held cleanly aloft and tied by a red ribbon on the distaff. Over her shoulder is her suitor, who is in turn lit from the other side by the suggestion of a full moon, in a starlit sky beyond the open window. He carries a shillelagh and wears a Carolan hat and a coat with a high collar, which was fashionable male attire in mid-nineteenth century in rural Ireland. Molly Bawn was the woman whose tragic death was lamented by her betrothed lover, in a popular ballad of the same name. The young man accidentally shot and killed her while out hunting at night. There are numerous subsequent versions, but the tragedy described in John Keegan Casey's (1816-1849) poem happened by a lake: alluding to her as young and slender, and 'her eyes they shone like diamonds bright'...'Entranced I gazed on Molly Bawn' By Claudia Kinmonth PhD M.A. (R.C.A.) author of Irish Country Furniture 1700-1950 & Irish Rural Interiors in Art (Yale University Press, 1993, 2006).

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    • William Fisher (1817-1895) A Portrait of The
      Oct. 05, 2010

      William Fisher (1817-1895) A Portrait of The

      Est: €2,500 - €3,000

      William Fisher (1817-1895) A Portrait of The Honourable Philippa Eliza Sidney Smythe (d.1859), daughter of the 6th Viscount Strangford, wife of The Honourable Henry James Ballie MP (1803-1885); A Portrait of Percy Ellen Frederick William Smythe, 8th and Last Viscount Strangford (1826-1869) Oil on panel, a pair, 21 x 17.5cm, oval Percy Smythe's father was better known as Sydney Smythe, the poet and translator of CamoÙns, his mother was Ellen from Markethill, Galway Contemporary label verso

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