Antony Vandyke Copley Fielding by Sir William Boxall

Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding (22 November 1787 – 3 March 1855), commonly called Copley Fielding, was an

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painter born in Sowerby, near Halifax, and famous for his

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landscapes. At an early age Fielding became a pupil of John Varley. In 1810 he became an associate exhibitor in the

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, in 1813 a full member and in 1831 President of that body (later known as the Royal Society of Watercolours), until his death. In 1824 he won a gold medal at the Paris Salon alongside

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and John Constable. He also engaged largely in teaching the art and made ample profits. He later moved to Park Crescent in

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and died in the town in March 1855. Copley Fielding was a painter of much elegance, taste and accomplishment and has always been highly popular with purchasers. He painted a vast number of all sorts of views (occasionally in oil-colour) including marine subjects. Examples of his work is held by the

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and other major museums in Britain. Among the engraved specimens of his art is the ''Annual of British Landscape Scenery'', published in 1839.

Gallery

References

*S.C. Kaines Smith, 'A.V.C. Fielding', OWS Club, III, 1925-6, pp 8–30 *John Ramm, 'In Search of Nature: the Life & Works of Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding PRWS', 'Antique Dealer & Collectors Guide', May 1999, Vol 52, No.10

External links

Works by Copley-Fielding at the Tate Gallery

Works by Copley-Fielding at the Louvre

Works by Copley-Fielding at The Queen's Art Collection

Works by Copley-Fielding at Victoria & Albert Museum
* , an engraving by W Floyd for Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1832, with a poetical illustration by

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. * , an engraving by Thomas Jeavons for Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1833 (with a humorous poem by

on the difficulties of writing to order on unknown subjects). {{DEFAULTSORT:Fielding, Copley 1787 births 1855 deaths 19th-century English painters English male painters Landscape painters English watercolourists 19th-century English male artists