Samuel Luke Fields ( born Samuel Luke Fildes ; October 3, 1844 ; Liverpool - February 27, 1927 , London ) is an English illustrator.
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Biography
He graduated from the Royal College of Art and the Royal Academy of Arts .
Samuel Luke Fields was born in Liverpool on October 18, 1844 . When he was a child, his education was engaged in by his grandmother Maria Fields , who was a political activist and acted as one of the speakers at meetings in Manchester . Maria Fields was a leading figure in the women's Chartist movement.
At the age of seventeen, Luke Fields becomes a student at the Warrington School of Art. In 1863, Fields won a scholarship that allowed him to study in London . Fields moves to South Kensington School of Art, where he meets Frank Hall and Hubert von Herkomer . All three were greatly influenced by the work of Frederick Walker, the leader of the social realism movement in Britain.
Towards the end of the 1860s, Fields made money as an illustrator of such popular periodicals as Cornhill Magazine and Once a Week.
Fields shared his grandmother's political beliefs about the need to care for the poor, and in 1869 he was enlisted in The Graphic, an illustrated weekly edited by public reformer William Lewson Thomas. Fields, along with Thomas, believed that the power of visual images could change public opinion by awakening his attention to issues such as poverty and social injustice.
Over time, Fields became a famous and popular artist, and in 1870 he left his work in the newspaper and returned to oil painting.
In the 80s of the XIX century, Luke Fields became a portrait painter and in this field by 1900 turned into one of the most successful and highly paid artists in England. He painted portraits of several members of the royal family, including a portrait of Edward VII . In 1906 he was knighted.
The son of Luke Fields, Paul is a pathologist and microbiologist, a specialist in biological weapons , an employee of the Porton Down laboratory.
Notes
- ↑ SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ Union List of Artist Names - 2011.
Literature
- WW Fenn: 'Our Living Artists: Luke Fildes, ARA', Mag. A., iii (1880), pp. 49-52
- Thomson, David Croal. The Art Annual, 1895: The Life and Work of Luke Fildes, RA With numerous illustrations. London: The Art Journal Office (294, City Road, and 26, Ivy Lane), Christmas 1895 pp. 1-3
- LV Fildes: Luke Fildes, RA: A Victorian Painter (London, 1968)
- B. Myers: 'Studies for Houseless and Hungry and the Casual Ward by Luke Fildes, RA', Apollo, cxxiv / 952 (1982), pp. 36-43 Hard Times (exh. Cat. By J. Treuherz, Manchester, CAG, 1987-8)
- Treuherz, Julian. “Luke Fildes: 'Dumb, Wet, Silent Horrors” in Hard Times: Social Realism in Victorian Art. ed. Julian Treuherz. London: Lund Humphries, 1987. pp. 83-89.
- David Croal Thomson, The Life & Work of Luke Fildes (1923)
- Georgina C. Levene "The Doctor" 1891 Luke Fildes RA (1843-1927): one hundred years later: a celebratory assessment 1991.106 p.
- Cohen, Jane R. Chapter 18. Charles Dickens and His Original Illustrators. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 1980.
- Mitchell, Sally, ed. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. London and New York: Garland, 1988.