Newton Smith Fielding (1799–1856), was an

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and

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Life

Fielding was born in

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in 1799, the youngest son of Nathan Theodore Fielding. He exhibited at the

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, showing some landscapes in 1815, and cattle pieces in 1818. He is best known for his paintings and engravings of animals. Besides painting in water-colours, he also made etchings, aquatints, and lithographs, becoming especially proficient in the last of these. He moved to Paris where he lived until his death, on 12 January 1856; he was much esteemed there, entering the 1827

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and teaching the family of

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. In 1836 he published in London a set of ''Subjects after Nature'', and in

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he published sets of lithographs of animals, and illustrations to various works. He also

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''Three Hundred Lessons; or, a Year's Instruction in Landscape Drawing, including Marine Subjects, with Hints on Perspective'', (1852); ''Lessons on Fortification, with Plates'', (1853); ''A Dictionary of Colour, containing Seven Hundred and Fifty Tints, to which is prefixed a Grammar of Colour'', (1854); ''What to Sketch with; or, Hints on the Use of Coloured Crayons, Water-colours, Oil-colours, Black and White Chalks, Black-lead Pencil, and the Author's new Method of Preserving the Lights with Composition'', (1856); and ''How to Sketch from Nature; or, Perspective and its Application'', (2nd edit. 1856).

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