A Calm Watering Place--Extensive and Boundless Scene with Cattle, 1816. In this prime example of Fisher’s early rural pictures, a ferry delivers two wealthy women and their belongings ashore, as a herd of especially handsome cattle rests in the foreground. Boston-based Fisher was among the first American artists to specialize in landscape, recalling that "This species of painting being novel in this part of the country, I found it a more lucrative, pleasant and distinguishing branch of the art than portrait ;

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Photo credit: © Heritage Images / Alamy / Afripics
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