(John George) Paul Fischer (1786–1875) was a German painter. Fischer was born at

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on 16 September 1786. He was the youngest of three sons of a line-engraver, who died very soon after the birth of the youngest child, leaving his family in poverty. At the age of fourteen, Fischer was placed as a pupil with Johann Heinrich Ramberg, the fashionable court painter, by whom he was employed in painting portraits, theatrical scenery, and generally assisting his master. He became capable of earning enough money to support his mother. In 1810 he betook himself to England, and his Hanoverian connection rendered it easy for him to obtain the patronage of royalty. He painted miniature portraits of

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and the junior members of the royal family, and was employed by the

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to paint a series of military costumes. In 1817 he began to exhibit at the

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, and continued to do so up to 1852, occasionally contributing also to the

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. His works were chiefly portraits in miniature, but he occasionally exhibited landscapes in watercolours. He continued to paint up to his eighty-first year, and died 12 September 1875. Fischer was an industrious but inferior artist. Some sketches by him in the print room at the

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show spirit and intelligence, especially two pencil portraits of William Hunt and his wife. He published a few

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s and

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The British Museum: Drawings by Fischer.
1786 births 1875 deaths Artists from Hanover 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists German male painters {{Germany-painter-stub

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