The Fisher Boy
1840
19th Century
30 in. x 22 1/2 in.
Edwin White,
American,
(1817–1877)
Medium and Support:
oil on canvas
Credit Line:
Florence Griswold Museum, Gift of The Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company
Accession Number:
2002.1.161
Edwin White, a popular genre and historical painter descended from Elder John White, one of the first settlers on the Connecticut River, just above Hartford, was born in South Hadley, Mass., May 21, 1817. In Hartford, at the age of eighteen, he entered the studio of Mr. Hewins as a pupil in portraiture and soon after he received a commission to paint an original Madonna in Norwalk.