SIR LUKE FILDES (1844— )
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Originally appearing in Volume
V10,
Page 339
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
SIR LUKE FILDES (1844— )
, English painter, was born at Liverpool, and trained in the South Kensington and Royal Academy schools
.
At first a highly successful illustrator, he took rank later among the ablest English painters, with " The Casual See also: - WARD
- WARD, ADOLPHUS WILLIAM (1837- )
- WARD, ARTEMUS
- WARD, EDWARD MATTHEW (1816-1879)
- WARD, ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS (1844-1911)
- WARD, JAMES (1769--1859)
- WARD, JAMES (1843– )
- WARD, JOHN QUINCY ADAMS (1830-1910)
- WARD, LESTER FRANK (1841– )
- WARD, MARY AUGUSTA [MRS HUMPHRY WARD]
- WARD, WILLIAM (1766-1826)
- WARD, WILLIAM GEORGE (1812-1882)
" (1874)," The Widower " (1876),"The Village Wedding" (1883), " An Al- fresco Toilette " (1889); and " The Doctor " (1891), now in the National Gallery of British Art
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He also painted a number of pictures of Venetian life and many notable portraits, among them the coronation portraits of See also: - KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
VII. and Queen Alexandra
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He was elected an associate of the Royal Academy in 1879, and academician in 1887; and was knighted in 1906
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See David Croal Thomson, The Life and Work of Luke Fildes, R.A, (1895)
.
End of Article: SIR LUKE FILDES (1844— )
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