xt7qjq0stw34_5373 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/mets.xml https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/1997ms474.dao.xml unknown archival material 1997ms474 English University of Kentucky The physical rights to the materials in this collection are held by the University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.  Contact the Special Collections Research Center for information regarding rights and use of this collection. W. Hugh Peal manuscript collection Luke Fildes letter to H. Bicknell, with clipping text 43.94 Cubic Feet 86 boxes, 4 oversize boxes, 22 items Poor-Good Peal accession no. 11453. Luke Fildes letter to H. Bicknell, with clipping 2017 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/1997ms474/Box_62/Folder_40/Multipage28450.pdf 1876 July 15, undated 1876 1876 July 15, undated section false xt7qjq0stw34_5373 xt7qjq0stw34 LUKE FILDES, A.R.A.

Mr. Fildes was born October 18, 1844. After
some preparatory study in the provinces he
came to London in the autumn of 1863, and
entered the Art-Schools at South Kensington,
where he studied for two years; and in 1866 he
becamea student of the Royal Academy. Very
soon after Mr. Fildes began to draw on wood
for various illustrated periodicals, and young
as he was, and unpractised and unknown, his
second drawing was accepted for engraving by
the Illustrated London News. Among the serial
illustrations Which brought him into public
notice were those for the English version of
Victor Hugo’s “ L’Iwmme qu‘i m't,” and the last
works of Dickens and Lever—viz., “The
Mystery of Edwin Drood,” and “Lord Hel-
gobbin.” During the time he was thus
occupied drawing for the Wood engraver he
employed his leisure in painting, and he
exhibited his first oil picture, entitled “ Fair,
quiet, and sweet rest,” at the Royal Academy
in 1872. In the following year he exhibited
also at the Academy another charming boating,r
subject with a pair of lovers, called “The
Simpletons.” This was succeeded in 1874 by
“ Applicants for admission to a Casual
Ward,” one of the most original and pathetic
pictures of our day. To the Academy Exhibi-
tion of 1875 Mr. Fildes only contributed a
single figure called “ Betty,” which, under the
title of “ The Milk Maid,” was published by
this Journal as a Coloured Supplement. “The
Widower ” (1876) and “Playmates ” (1877)
came subsequently; but last year the artist did
not exhibit, being occupied with an elaborate
picture, which is noticed by us in the present
Number. MI. Fildes was an exhibitor at the
Vienna and Philadelphia Exhibitions, where
he was awarded medals. f ‘ . 3

 

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