Rowland Fisher (1885 – 1969)
The Cozies from Pier Hotel
Signed (lower left)
Oil on Board
Framed, Dimensions 18″ x 22″ SOLD
Rowland Fisher (1885 – 1969)
Painter, born in Gorleston, Norfolk, the son and grandson of master mariners. He was apprenticed to a timber firm in Southtown where he remained for fifty years, retiring as sawmill manager in 1950. Although self-taught as an artist, his next-door neighbour was Campbell Mellon. Fisher was a co-founder of the Great Yarmouth and District Society of Artists, following Arnesby Brown as its President. His paintings of ships, docks and quays chart the fortunes of the Yarmouth fleet as it changed from sail to diesel. Holidays in Cornwall led to his election as a member of the St. Ives Society of Artists he also became a member of the RSMA. He was also elected ROI and his work is represented in the collection of the National Maritime Museum. A large collection of his powerful oil paintings hang at the James Paget Hospital in Gorleston. There are also examples of his work in Great Yarmouth Museum and National Maritime Museum.