Alvan Fisher was an American landscape and genre painter.
Alvan Fisher (1792–1863)
Alvan Fisher (American, 1792–1863). View of Springfield on the Connecticut River, 1819. Oil on canvas. Brooklyn Museum
A General View of the Falls of Niagara (1820), Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Fisher's headstone in Old Village Cemetery
Thomas Doughty was an American artist associated with the Hudson River School.
Alvan Fisher
…spectacular scenery of the White Mountains of New Hampshire. He sketched outdoors and began to compose pastoral scenes in his studio before Thomas Cole, Thomas Doughty, Asher B. Durand, or others of the Hudson River School gave serious attention to nature. The Watering Place, 1816, now in the collection of Fruitlands…
View of the Fairmount Waterworks, Philadelphia, from the Opposite Side of the Schuylkill River, 1824/26, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
View of West Point, 1827, Museum of the Shenandoah Valley
View of the Delaware Water Gap, 1827, Museum of the Shenandoah Valley
Ruins in a Landscape, 1828