Plaster maquette of Epstein's bronze bust of Fisher commissioned by the Duchess of Hamilton in 1915. It shows him, head and torso with a flat base at lower-rib level, facing forward in full-dress uniform, decorations and ADC braid.

Epstein (1880-1959) reported of the sittings: 'Fisher had an extraordinary appearance. His light eyes, with strange colours, were set in a face like parchment ivory, and his iron-grey hair was cut short and bristled on his head. He was short, but had ... combative sturdiness ... He was the typical man of war. He made no bones about it. War was terrible, and should be terrible'.

The bust was presented to the Museum by the artist's widow Kathleen, Lady Epstein, in March 1966. Both the Duke of Hamilton and Lord Clifford of Chudleigh were noted in 1981 as having bronze versions. The Imperial War Museum has a different, narrower version of 1919; also a related letter from Fisher to Epstein.

Fisher was one of the greatest administrators in the history of the Navy and a driving force in its reform in many areas, especially its early 20th-century 'big-gun' ship development and personnel training. The Museum also has A. S. Cope's 1902 oil portrait of Fisher (BHC2690).