Jonathan Fisher (painter)

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Jonathan Fisher (painter)
Birth name	Jonathan Fisher
Born	1740 Dublin, Ireland
Died	1809 Bishop Street, Dublin, Ireland
Nationality	Irish
Field	Painting

Jonathan Fisher (c. 1740–1809) was an Irish painter.

Fisher was born in Dublin. He is first recorded in 1763 when he was awarded a premium by the Dublin Society for a landscape.

He is best known for his fine engravings and aquatints of Irish scenery. He travelled all over Ireland. He published views of Killarney in 1770 and 1789.

He lived at Great Ship Street, Dublin, from about 1778 until 1805, when he moved to Bishop Street, Dublin, where he died in 1809.

References

Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1889). "Fisher, Jonathan". Dictionary of National Biography 19. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

Literature

J. S. Powell: Pavilioned in Splendour.
Irish Times. Saturday, June 12, 1999, and Saturday, October 27, 2007.
James Gandon, edited by Thomas Mulvany: The Life of James Gandon, pp. 148–149.

External links

Irish Artists: 18th Century. List of Biographies of Famous Painters of Ireland, Born in the Eighteenth Century, or Before: Portraitists, Landscape & Narrative History Pictures.
Jonathan Fisher. Art and Emo Court.
Gallery of Fisher's paintings on site of the Old Print Shop.

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Persondata
Name	Fisher, Jonathan
Alternative names
Short description	Irish artist
Date of birth	1740
Place of birth	Dublin, Ireland
Date of death	1809
Place of death	Bishop Street, Dublin, Ireland

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