Alexander Fisher was born in Shelton, Stoke-on-Trent, England on 3 March 1864. His father, also Alexander Fisher (c.1837-1925), was a ceramics painter for Brown-Westhead, Moore & Co., and from the 1870s, for the Torquay Terra Cotta Co. Alexander Fisher worked with his father enamelling on ceramics before winning a scholarship to attend the National Art Training Schools in South Kensington, London (now Royal College of Art) where he studied from 1884 to 1886. In 1886 he won a Travelling Scholarship and visited France and Italy. He subsequently worked primarily as an enameller. He was also a sculptor, medallist, jewellery designer, and metalworker. In 1886 he was appointed Head of the enamel workshop at Central School of Arts and Crafts in London.
In 1892 he established a studio at 139 Oxford Street, London.
Fisher exhibited at the Royal Academy, the New Gallery, the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, the Royal Miniature Society, the London Salon, and the Royal Institute of Oil Painters in London; Leeds City Art Gallery; Royal Birmingham Society of Artists; and Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. He also participated in the exhibitions of the Arts & Crafts Exhibition Society in London in 1890, 1893, 1896, 1899, 1903, 1906, 1910, 1912, and 1916; the fourth exhibition of the Arts and Crafts Society of Ireland and Guild of Irish Art-Workers. in Dublin in 1910; the International Art Exhibition in Barcelona, Spain in 1907; the British Arts and Crafts Section of the Ghent International Exhibition in 1913; the exhibition Arts Décoratifs de Grande-Bretagne et d'Irlande at the Palais du Louvre Pavillon de Marsan in Paris in 1914
In 1919 he received a commission from Mary, Countess of Wemyss to design a war memorial for the village of Stanway in Gloucestershire.
Fisher was elected an Associate of the Royal Society of British Sculptors (ARBS) in 1923. He was also elected a member of the Art Workers Guild in 1891 and was a member of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society with whom he exhibited from 1890.
He was the author of 'The Art of Enamelling on Metal' (London: Bradbury, Agnew & Co. Ltd., 1905)
Exhibition catalogues give Fisher's address as 139 Oxford Street, London in 1892 and 1896; 4 Warwick Studios, High Road, London in 1897 and 1899; 17 Warwick Gardens, Kensington, London in 1904 and 1910; and 12 St. Mary's Abbott's Place, Kensington, London in 1911 and 1918. During the 1920s he moved to Hampshire.
He died in Southsea, Hampshire on 21 April 1936. His address at the time of his death was 11 Western Parade, Southsea, Hampshire.
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