Landscape
Oil Painting
ca. 1810-1855 (painted)
ca. 1810-1855 (painted)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
(Anthony Van Dyck) Copley Fielding (1787-1855) was the best known and most prolific of a family of brothers who were all painters. He trained initially with his father, travelling with him to Liverpool in 1807 and then to Wales in 1808. In 1810 he entered the Royal Academy schools where he was taught by John Varley (1778-1842). Fielding was particularly proficient as a watercolourist - he exhibited at the Society for Painters in Watercolours regularly from 1810 and was elected president in 1831.
According to Ronald Parkinson (Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1990) the landscape is by Fielding and the cattle and two drovers are by John Linnell (1792-1882). Linnell also trained under Varley at the Royal Academy schools so they may have met there.
According to Ronald Parkinson (Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1990) the landscape is by Fielding and the cattle and two drovers are by John Linnell (1792-1882). Linnell also trained under Varley at the Royal Academy schools so they may have met there.
Object details
| Category | |
| Object type | |
| Title | Landscape (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Oil on canvas |
| Brief description | Oil painting on canvas, 'Landscape', A V Copley Fielding and John Linnell, ca. 1810 - 1855 |
| Physical description | Rocky, mountainous landscape at the forefront of which two drovers herd their cattle across a water crossing. |
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| Credit line | Bequeathed by Henry Spencer Ashbee |
| Object history | Bequeathed by Henry Spencer Ashbee, 1900 |
| Production | according to Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, Ronald Parkinson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1990, the landscape is by Fielding but the cattle and two drovers are probably by Linnell |
| Subjects depicted | |
| Summary | (Anthony Van Dyck) Copley Fielding (1787-1855) was the best known and most prolific of a family of brothers who were all painters. He trained initially with his father, travelling with him to Liverpool in 1807 and then to Wales in 1808. In 1810 he entered the Royal Academy schools where he was taught by John Varley (1778-1842). Fielding was particularly proficient as a watercolourist - he exhibited at the Society for Painters in Watercolours regularly from 1810 and was elected president in 1831. According to Ronald Parkinson (Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1990) the landscape is by Fielding and the cattle and two drovers are by John Linnell (1792-1882). Linnell also trained under Varley at the Royal Academy schools so they may have met there. |
| Bibliographic reference | Parkinson, R., Victoria and Albert Museum, Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, London: HMSO, 1990, p. 91 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 1849-1900 |
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| Record created | February 14, 2006 |
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