William Fisk

William Fisk (1796–1872) was an English portrait and history painter.

Life He was born at Thorpe-le-Soken, Essex, the son of a yeoman farmer at Can Hall. His father sent him to school at Colchester, and at nineteen years of age placed him in a mercantile house in London. There he remained for ten years. He married about 1826, and after the birth of his eldest son he devoted himself seriously to art as a profession.

Between 1835 and 1848 he lived in Howland Street, off Tottenham Court Road, in London. He eventually retired to some property at Danbury in Essex, where he died on 8 November 1872.