Alvan Fisher Date ca. 1819(1819)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 80.4 X 111 cm (31.65 X 43.7 in)
cyf View of Springfield on the Connecticut River American Painter, 1792-1863, American painter. Soon after he left the tutelage of John Ritto Penniman (c. 1782-1841), he began to paint genre landscapes such as Winter in Milton, Massachusetts (1815; Montclair, NJ, A. Mus.), which depicts a man on a horse-drawn sleigh enjoying the beauty of a fresh New England snowfall.
