Copley Fielding

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Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding (1787 - 1855), commonly called Copley Fielding, was an English painter born in Sowerby, near Halifax, Lancashire and famous for his watercolour landscapes. 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. In 1824 he won a gold medal at the Paris Salon alongside Richard Parkes Bonington and John Constable. He also engaged largely in teaching the art and made ample profits. He died in Worthing in March 1855.

Copley Fielding was a painter of much elegance, taste and accomplishment and, while not reaching very high in originality of purpose or of style, has always been highly popular with purchasers. He painted a vast number of all sorts of views (occasionally in oil-color) including marine subjects in large proportion. Specimens of his work from 1829 to 1850 can be seen in the water-color gallery of the Victoria and Albert Museum. Among the engraved specimens of his art is the Annual of British Landscape Scenery, published in 1839.

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• S.C. Kaines Smith, 'A.V.C. Fielding', OWS Club, III, 1925-6, pp 8-30
• John Ramm, 'In Search of Nature', 'Antique Dealer & Collectors Guide', May 1999, Vol 52, No.10
• This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.