Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Fink, Frederick

FINK, Frederick, artist, b. in Little Falls, N. Y., 18 Dec., 1817; d. in 1849. He studied medicine in Albany, but became a merchant, and afterward studied painting with Samuel F. B. Morse, and later in Europe. He painted many excellent genre pictures, the most notable of which are “The Artist's Studio,” “The Shipwrecked Mariner,” and “The Negro Wood-Sawyer.”