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    of the political activist Mary Fildes. At the age of 17, Fildes became a student at the Warrington School of Art. Fildes moved to the South Kensington...
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    The Doctor is an 1891 painting by Luke Fildes that depicts a Victorian doctor observing the critical stage in a child's illness while the parents gaze...
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  • 1908 Summer Olympics. Fildes was born on 13 June 1879 in London, the son of Sir Luke Fildes, and the great grandson of Mary Fildes. He was named Val after...
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    Shortly after Fildes had commissioned Shaw to design his house, Fildes' grandmother, Mary, had died, leaving him her property. Facing south, Fildes large artists...
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    in the Peterloo massacre. She was also the grandmother of the artist Luke Fildes through her son James. Born Mary Pritchard in Cork, Ireland, between...
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    successful artist himself, founder Thomas recruited gifted artists, including Luke Fildes, Hubert von Herkomer, Frank Holl, and John Everett Millais. In its first...
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    Admission to a Casual Ward is an 1874 oil painting by British painter Luke Fildes, a key work in nineteenth-century British social realism. The painting...
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    "The story ... was to be that of the murder of a nephew by his uncle." Luke Fildes, who illustrated the story, said that Dickens had told him, when they...
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    painter Luke Fildes. Fildes and Stone were artistic rivals and each naturally regarded their own Shaw-designed house as superior. Luke Fildes wrote of...
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  • Victorian painter, Sir Luke Fildes R.A. and Welsh Sculptor Sir William Goscombe-John R.A., and son of British Olympian (Épée) Luke Val Fildes, Audrey showed keen...
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    Second World War. Fildes was born in Kensington, London, the son of the artist Sir Luke Fildes and great grandson of reformist Mary Fildes, Paul attended...
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    player Luke Fickell (born 1973), American football coach Luke Fildes (1843–1927), British painter Luke Fildes (fencer) (1879–1970), British fencer Luke Fischer...
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  • with the Bohemian Arts Club of Chicago. In 1933 he painted a copy of Luke Fildes' 1891 The Doctor which has sometimes been confused with the original...
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  • Edward Manners Fildes (1875–1937), New Zealand book collector John Fildes (1811–1875), British businessman and politician Luke Fildes (1843–1927), British...
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    The Laundress, 1761 William Bell Scott Iron and Coal, 1855–1860 Sir Luke Fildes, The Widower, 1876 Albert Edelfelt, The Luxembourg Gardens, 1887 The...
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    Cove was the setting for a number of studies by Victorian painter Sir Luke Fildes; inspiring the cottage in his work in oil The Doctor. Early in World...
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    pp. 1043–1044. Foxcroft 2007, p. 53. Ackroyd 1990, pp. 1069–1070. "Luke Fildes". TheFamousArtists.com. Archived from the original on 14 March 2012....
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    Aladin (1873–1927), Russian politician who formed and led the Trudoviks Luke Fildes (1843–1927), painter Sarah Eleanor Smith (née Pennington) (1861–1931)...
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  • 2001 novel by Laura Spinney The Doctor (painting), a 1891 painting by Luke Fildes The Doctor (play), a 2019 play by Robert Icke "The Doctor", the third...
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    character, Patience, was made up and costumed to resemble the subject of a Luke Fildes painting. Patience was not the first satire of the aesthetic movement...
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    at Gads Hill Place in 1870, shortly after Dickens's death, by Samuel Luke Fildes. The painting was Buss's last attempt to illustrate Dickens's characters...
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    pupils during this period included George Clausen, Christopher Dresser, Luke Fildes, Kate Greenaway and Gertrude Jekyll. In September 1896 the school received...
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    The Doctor by Sir Luke Fildes (1891)...
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    opposite Stavordvale Lodge and next to Woodland House, built for the artist Luke Fildes. The development of Melbury Road in the grounds of Little Holland House...
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    aroused concern for the poor, and in the 1870s the work of artists such as Luke Fildes, Hubert von Herkomer, Frank Holl, and William Small were widely reproduced...
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    Painting of Treves by Luke Fildes in 1896...
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    fellow art student Luke Fildes: "the two became each other's greatest friend and artistic confidant for life." In 1869 both Woods and Fildes became illustrators...
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    an informal group of 19th-century artists, including William Burges, Luke Fildes, Frederic Leighton, Valentine Prinsep, Hamo Thornycroft, and George Frederick...
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    as well as English artists Ford Madox Brown, Hubert von Herkomer and Luke Fildes had great success with realist paintings dealing with social issues and...
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    Portrait by Luke Fildes, 1905...
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