Newton Smith Fielding
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Newton Smith Fielding was an English
painter
and lithographer.
Fielding was born in London
in 1799, was the youngest son of Nathan Theodore Fielding
. He exhibited at the Society of Painters in Water-colours, sending some views in 1815, and cattle pieces in 1818. He is best known for his paintings and engravings of animals. Besides painting in water-colours, he worked also in etching, aquatint, and lithography, and in the last named art he attained great proficiency. He went to Paris, where he resided until his death, on 12 January 1856; he was much esteemed there, and taught the family of Louis-Philippe. In 1836 he published in London a set of ‘Subjects after Nature,’ and in Paris
he published sets of lithographs of animals, and illustrations to various works.
He also published: ‘Three Hundred Lessons; or, a Year's Instruction in Landscape Drawing, including Marine
Subjects, with Hints on Perspective,’ 1852; ‘Lessons on Fortification, with Plates,’ 1853; ‘A Dictionary of Colour, containing Seven Hundred and Fifty Tints, to which is prefixed a Grammar of Colour,’ 1854; ‘What to Sketch with; or, Hints on the Use of Coloured Crayons, Water-colours, Oil-colours, Black and White Chalks, Black-lead Pencil, and the Author's new Method of Preserving the Lights with Composition,’ 1856; and ‘How to Sketch from Nature; or, Perspective and its Application,’ 2nd edit. 1856.
English people
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painter
Painting
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and lithographer.
Fielding was born in London
London
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in 1799, was the youngest son of Nathan Theodore Fielding
Nathan Theodore Fielding
Nathan Theodore Fielding , was an English painter.Fielding was a native of Yorkshire, and resided near Halifax. He had a considerable local reputation, and was especially noted for his portraits of aged people, executed in Balthasar Denner's style, with attention to the wrinkles of the skin and...
. He exhibited at the Society of Painters in Water-colours, sending some views in 1815, and cattle pieces in 1818. He is best known for his paintings and engravings of animals. Besides painting in water-colours, he worked also in etching, aquatint, and lithography, and in the last named art he attained great proficiency. He went to Paris, where he resided until his death, on 12 January 1856; he was much esteemed there, and taught the family of Louis-Philippe. In 1836 he published in London a set of ‘Subjects after Nature,’ and in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
he published sets of lithographs of animals, and illustrations to various works.
He also published: ‘Three Hundred Lessons; or, a Year's Instruction in Landscape Drawing, including Marine
Marine (ocean)
Marine is an umbrella term. As an adjective it is usually applicable to things relating to the sea or ocean, such as marine biology, marine ecology and marine geology...
Subjects, with Hints on Perspective,’ 1852; ‘Lessons on Fortification, with Plates,’ 1853; ‘A Dictionary of Colour, containing Seven Hundred and Fifty Tints, to which is prefixed a Grammar of Colour,’ 1854; ‘What to Sketch with; or, Hints on the Use of Coloured Crayons, Water-colours, Oil-colours, Black and White Chalks, Black-lead Pencil, and the Author's new Method of Preserving the Lights with Composition,’ 1856; and ‘How to Sketch from Nature; or, Perspective and its Application,’ 2nd edit. 1856.