Sir Luke Fildes

1843–1927

Biography

Sir Samuel Luke Fildes (3 October 1843 – 28 February 1927) was an English painter and illustrator born in Liverpool and trained at the South Kensington and Royal Academy schools. He was the grandson of the political activist Mary Fildes.

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Artworks

Sir Luke Fildes The Doctor

exhibited 1891
Sir Luke Fildes Applicants for Admission to a Casual Ward

after 1908

Features

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Francis Wells , Alexa de Ferranti , Desmond Morris , Dan Hays and Jim Drain

Francis Wells on Luke Fildes’s The Doctor 1891, Alexa de Ferranti on William Hogarth’s The Painter and his Pug 1745, …