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Richard Fisher

Sussex, 1809 - 1890

Biographyfound: Catalogue of a collection of engravings, etchings, and woodcuts, 1879: title page (Richard Fisher)
found: University of Glasgow. Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler, viewed July 25, 2014 : (Richard Fisher, ??-1890; Richard Fisher was a Fellow and Curator of the Society of Painter-Etchers from 1880-1890; nationality: English) {http://www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk/correspondence/biog/display/?bid=Fish_R}
found: Christie's Auction Results, viewed July 25, 2014 lot 190 (FISHER, RICHARD (1809-1890) ) {http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot/fisher-richard--4455608-details.aspx?intObjectID=4455608}

Biography-Biritsh Museum
Richard Fisher (collector; British; Male; 1809 - 1890)
Came from a wealthy Sussex family, began collecting prints in 1835; an executor of Felix Slade. Wrote for the British Museum an 'Introduction to a catalogue of the early Italian prints in the British Museum', 1886; this was the only part published of a catalogue of the BM Italian print collection up to and including Marcantonio: this was written and set up in type in a number of volumes in 1880-4, but was suppressed by order of the Trustees as of low standard. Published his own collection of prints in a catalogue in 1879. Also collected Japanese netsuke. His collection of books of Italian prints of the XV and XVI centuries, augmented by his son,. R C Fisher, was purchased en bloc by C W Dyson Perrins (Sotheby's, 21.v.1906); other sales 23.v.1892 and four following days and 10.ii.1919 (both at Sotheby's).
("Fisher, Richard", The British Museum, http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/term_details.aspx?bioId=125134. Accessed August 18, 2015. )

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