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See also:FIELDING, See also:ANTHONY VANDYKE See also:COPLEY (1787-1855) , commonly called Copley Fielding, See also:English landscape painter (son of a portrait painter), became at an See also:early See also:age a See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil of See also:John See also:Varley. He took to See also:water-See also:colour See also:painting, and to this he See also:con-fined himself almost exclusively. In 18ro he became an See also:associate exhibitor in the Water-colour Society, in 1813 a full member, and in 1831 See also:president of that See also:body. He also engaged largely in teaching the See also:art, and made ample profits. His See also:death took See also:place at See also:Worthing in See also:March 1855. Copley Fielding was a painter of much elegance, See also:taste and accomplishment, and has always been highly popular with purchasers, without reaching very high in originality of purpose or of See also:style: he painted in vast number all sorts of views (occasionally in oil-colour) including marine subjects in large proportion. Specimens of his See also:work are to be seen in thewater-colour See also:gallery of the See also:Victoria and See also:Albert Museum; of See also:dates ranging from 1829 to 185o. Among the engraved specimens of his art is the See also:Annual of See also:British Landscape Scenery, published in 1839. (W. M.
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