# Rowland Fisher artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T12:57:45.738Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: British
- Common media: Painting

## About Rowland Fisher

Rowland Fisher (1885–1969) was a British painter chiefly associated with seascapes and maritime subjects. Public authority records identify him as an English or British painter, while the documented work titles linked through VIAF show a sustained interest in working coastal life. These subjects include fishing smacks, trawlers, steam drifters, sailing barges, cargo vessels, harbour entrances, rough seas, and named boats. Lowestoft and Yarmouth appear among the recorded locations, placing several known scenes in the maritime environment of eastern England. The available records also identify subjects beyond the waterfront, including a hay wagon and a market in Brittany. Collectors are therefore most likely to encounter Fisher through marine paintings, but a non-marine subject should not automatically be excluded from consideration. His stable identifiers in Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, RKD, and Art UK help distinguish him from people with similar names and connect auction records to the correct artist entity.

## Common works and media

Works associated with Rowland Fisher are most commonly described as paintings of seascapes, harbours, fishing fleets, trawlers, sailing barges, cargo vessels, and coastal activity. Authority-linked titles also document named boats and views connected with Lowestoft and Yarmouth. Less typical recorded subjects include a hay wagon and a market in Brittany. The source pack does not establish a reliable breakdown by painting medium, support, print edition, or sculpture type, so those details should be verified from the individual work and its documentation.

## Market and appraisal context

Rowland Fisher's public identity record is substantially clearer than the market evidence in this source pack. Marine paintings—especially harbour views, fishing craft, trawlers, sailing vessels, and scenes of working coastal life—form the best-supported category for comparison. A named vessel or identifiable harbour may help narrow the relevant group of comparable works. Recorded rural or market subjects should be compared separately from seascapes. The collected sources do not provide dependable evidence for price ranges, market direction, or the effects of condition, size, provenance, signature, and date. Any appraisal should therefore inspect the individual object and use verified, lot-level auction records rather than infer value from the artist name or subject alone.

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7372125
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500084536
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/96290802/
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/135239
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/fisher-rowland-18851969
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowland_Fisher
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/rowland-fisher/