A pair of Lake Country landscapes. Oil on canvas, no signature found, each framed in an ornately detailed gilt frame, canvas size approx. 14" x 17", with framing overall 20-1/2" x 23-1/2". Each has a sticker on the dust cover from J.J. Gillespie Company, Pittsburgh, PA. A typed copy of the artist's biography in an envelope dated 1984 accompanies the lot. A pair of beautifully painted examples of this prolific artist's work; these have been held by the same owner for approx. 30 years.
Fielding was born on November 22, 1787 in Sowerby, his childhood was spent in London and Cumbria. He settled in London in 1809 and became a pupil of John Varley (whose wife's sister he married). He was a highly productive landscape painter exhibiting at the Royal Academy, London 1811-42 and the British Institution, London 1812-55, and showing 1748 works at the Old Water-Colour Society, London 1813-55 of which he as President 1832-55. He was a gold medallist at the Paris Salon in 1824. He died in Worthing on March 3, 1855.
2,000/4,000 Sold $2,127.50
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