ANTHONY VANDYKE

See also:

• COPLEY, JOHN SINGLETON (1737—1815)

COPLEY

See also:

• ANTHONY VANDYKE COPLEY FIELDING (1787-1855)
• FIELDING, HENRY (1707-1754)
• FIELDING, WILLIAM STEVENS (1848– )

FIELDING (1787-1855)  , commonly called Copley Fielding, English landscape painter (son of a portrait painter), became at an early age a pupil of John Varley . He took to water-colour painting, and to this he con-fined himself almost exclusively . In 18ro he became an associate exhibitor in the Water-colour 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 . 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-colour) including marine subjects in large proportion . Specimens of his work are to be seen in thewater-colour gallery of the Victoria and Albert Museum; of dates ranging from 1829 to 185o . Among the engraved specimens of his art is the Annual of British Landscape Scenery, published in 1839 . (W . M .