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Alvan Fisher
Mishap at the Ford, 1818
Fisher was one of the earliest native-born landscape painters in the United States, though many of his pictures were hybrid works in which figures activate the native landscape. His choice of a subject -- a coach accident in which the driver has lost control of his horses -- was likely inspired by early 19th-century English popular prints, which often featured light-hearted incidents from everyday life within picturesque settings. |