Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding
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Biography
Copley Fielding was born in Halifax, Yorkshire, and grew up in London and the Lake District. He gave drawing lessons in Liverpool from 1807. He moved to London in 1809 and had lessons from John Varley and married his sister-in-law. He became an associate of the Old Water Colour Society in 1810 and a full member in 1812.
Fielding made sketching trips to Wales, County Durham, Yorkshire and the Wye Valley. He was a popular drawing master and a prolific draughtsman. He had moved to Brighton by 1829. In 1831 he was elected President of the OWCS until his death in 1855.
He exhibited extensively throughout his life and his work can be found in all major drawings collections, including the British Museum, Tate, V&A, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven and the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.
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