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FILDES, SIR LUKE (1844— )

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 339 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FILDES, See also:SIR See also:LUKE (1844— ) , See also:English painter, was See also:born at See also:Liverpool, and trained in the See also:South See also:Kensington and Royal See also:Academy See also:schools. At first a highly successful illustrator, he took See also:rank later among the ablest English painters, with " The Casual See also:Ward " (1874)," The Widower " (1876),"The See also:Village See also:Wedding" (1883), " An Al-See also:fresco Toilette " (1889); and " The See also:Doctor " (1891), now in the See also:National See also:Gallery of See also:British See also:Art. He also painted a number of pictures of Venetian See also:life and many notable portraits, among them the See also:coronation portraits of See also:King See also:Edward VII. and See also:Queen Alexandra. He was elected an See also:associate of the Royal Academy in 1879, and academician in 1887; and was knighted in 1906. See See also:David Croal See also:Thomson, The Life and See also:Work of Luke Fildes, R.A, (1895).

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