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
Watercolor (American English) or watercolour (British English; see spelling differences), also ''aquarelle'' (; from Italian diminutive of Latin ''aqua'' "water"), is a painting method”Watercolor may be as old as art itself, going back to ...
landscapes. At an early age Fielding became a pupil of
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. 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. In 1824 he won a gold medal at the
Paris Salon alongside
Richard Parkes Bonington
Richard Parkes Bonington (25 October 1802 – 23 September 1828) was an English Romantic landscape painter, who moved to France at the age of 14 and can also be considered as a French artist, and an intermediary bringing aspects of English sty ...
and
John Constable. 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 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 GalleryWorks by Copley-Fielding at the LouvreWorks by Copley-Fielding at The Queen's Art CollectionWorks 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).
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1787 births
1855 deaths
19th-century English painters
English male painters
Landscape painters
English watercolourists
19th-century English male artists