Copley Fielding
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Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding (1787 - 1855) commonly called Copley Fielding, was an English painter born in Sowerby and famous for his watercolour landscapes. Copley Fielding became at an early age a pupil of John Varley. In 1810 he became an associate exhibitor in the Watercolor Society, in 1813 a full member, and in 1831 president of that body. He also engaged largely in teaching the art, and made ample profits. His death took place at Worthing in March 1855. He won a gold medal at the Paris Salon in 1824, alongside Richard Parkes Bonington and John Constable.
Copley Fielding was a painter of much elegance, taste and accomplishment, and has always been highly popular with purchasers, without reaching very high in originality of purpose or of style: he painted in vast number all sorts of views (occasionally in oil-color) including marine subjects in large proportion. Specimens of his work are to be seen in the water-color gallery of the Victoria and Albert Museum of dates ranging from 1829 to 1850. Among the engraved specimens of his art is the Annual of British Landscape Scenery, published in 1839. (W. M. R.)
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