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tock University, and in many churches and

chapels of Mecklenburg.—Kunst-Chronik, viii. 431.

FISCHER, VINCENZ, born at Schmidham, Bavaria, April 2, 1729, died in Vienna, Oct. 26, 1810. History, architecture, and landscape painter, first apprenticed with an obscure painter at Passau, then pupil of Vienna Academy; went to Italy in 1753 to study under Tiepolo and Cignaroli, and after his return in 1760 became member of the Vienna Academy, and professor in 1764, as which he enjoyed considerable reputation. Works: Moses and Pharaoh's Crown (1760), Academy, Vienna; Roman Colonnade with Procession (1762), Similar Subject (1769), Museum, ib.; in fresco: Agamemnon shooting Diana's Sacred Doe, Castle Laxenburg, near Vienna; others in Royal Palace at Buda-Pesth, Royal Chapel at Pressburg.—Allgem. d. Biogr., vii. 82; Wurzbach, iv. 247.

FISEN, ENGELBERT, born at Liège in 1655, died there, April 15, 1733. Flemish school; history and portrait painter, pupil of Flemael, then in Rome (from 1671) of Carlo Maratti, whose style he followed closely; returned to Liège in 1679. Of the 653 pictures and portraits he painted, only a few have survived. Works: Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew, Christ on the Cross, St. Bartholomew's, Liège; Descent from the Cross, Chapelle des Femmes incurables, ib.—Biog. nat. de Belgique, vii. 78; Michiels, x. 171.

FISH-GIRL, Murillo, Lady Cranstoun, London; canvas, H. 3 ft. 4 in. × 2 ft. 8 in. Peasant girl, seated, full-length, looking front, holding up with left hand the end of the scarf which covers her neck; right hand on handle of basket of fruit, beside which, on ground, is a dish of fish; background, landscape. Probably Aguado sale (1843), 6,900 fr.; bought about 1864 from Mr. Burley. Engraved by Blanchard, in Gallery Aguado.—Curtis, 283; Ch. Blanc, École espagnole; Art Union, 1846; Art Journal, Sept., 1864; Scott, Murillo.

FISHER, KITTY, portrait, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Lord Crewe. Kitty Fisher, the Phryne of her day, daughter of a German staymaker. She married in 1766 Mr. Norris, son of the M.P. for Rye, and died in 1771. Half-length, sitting, with a white dove in her lap and another fluttering from the back of the sofa to join its mate. Painted in 1759; repetitions in Munro Collection, London, and in Lenox Gallery, New York. Another portrait, at Petworth House, represents her half-length, full face, sitting behind a table on which she rests her arms, with an open letter before her; a third depicts her as Cleopatra dissolving the pearl (engraved by Fisher); a fourth, Lord Lansdowne, in profile, with a parrot on her finger; a fifth, Lord Carysfort, an unfinished head in powder, and a fly-cap, perhaps the loveliest of all. One sold by Chrystie (1874), 114 gs.—Leslie & Taylor, Life, i. 163; Pulling, 22.

Kitty Fisher, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Lord Crewe.

FISHER, WILLIAM MARK, born in Massachusetts, contemporary. Landscape painter, pupil of George Inness, and afterwards