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Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding (22 November 1787 – 3 March 1855), commonly called Copley Fielding, was an English painter born in Sowerby, near Halifax, and famous for his watercolour
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 Letitia Elizabeth Landon. * , an engraving by Thomas Jeavons for Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1833 (with a humorous poem by Letitia Elizabeth Landon on the difficulties of writing to order on unknown subjects). {{DEFAULTSORT:Fielding, Copley 1787 births 1855 deaths 19th-century English painters English male painters English landscape painters English watercolourists 19th-century English male artists
Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding (22 November 1787 – 3 March 1855), commonly called Copley Fielding, was an English painter born in Sowerby, near Halifax, and famous for his watercolour landscape
A landscape is the visible features of an area of land, its landforms, and how they integrate with natural or human-made features, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal.''New Oxford American Dictionary''. A landscape includes th ...
s. At an early age Fielding became a pupil of John Varley. In 1810 he became an associate exhibitor in the Old Water-colour Society, in 1813 a full member and in 1831 President of that body (later known as the Royal Society of Watercolours), until his death. He won a gold medal at the Paris Salon of 1824 alongside Richard Parkes Bonington and John Constable
John Constable (; 11 June 1776 – 31 March 1837) was an English landscape painter in the Romanticism, Romantic tradition. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for revolutionising the genre of landscape painting with his pictures of Dedha ...
. He also engaged largely in teaching the art and made ample profits. He later moved to Park Crescent in Worthing 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 Victoria and Albert Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum (abbreviated V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects. It was founded in 1852 and named after Queen ...
and other major museums in Britain. Among the engraved specimens of his art is the ''Annual of British Landscape Scenery'', published in 1839.
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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.10External 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 Letitia Elizabeth Landon. * , an engraving by Thomas Jeavons for Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1833 (with a humorous poem by Letitia Elizabeth Landon on the difficulties of writing to order on unknown subjects). {{DEFAULTSORT:Fielding, Copley 1787 births 1855 deaths 19th-century English painters English male painters English landscape painters English watercolourists 19th-century English male artists