English artist Sir Samuel Luke Fildes (1844-1927) (53 works)

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Luke Fildes (born October 18, 1844, Liverpool - February 27, 1927) was an English illustrator.

Graduated from the Royal College of Art and the Royal Academy of Arts.

Samuel Luke Fildes was born in Liverpool on October 18, 1844. As a child, he was raised by his grandmother, Maria Fildes, who was a political activist and one of the speakers at meetings in Manchester. Maria Fildes was a leading figure in the Chartist women's movement.

At the age of seventeen, Luke Fildes becomes a student at Warrington Art School. In 1863, Fildes won a scholarship that allowed him to study in London. Fildes moves to South Kensington Art School, where he meets Frank Hall and Hubert von Herkomer. All three were greatly influenced by the work of Frederick Walker, leader of the social realism movement in Britain.

By the late 1860s, Fildes was earning money as an illustrator for such popular periodicals as the Cornhill Magazine and Once a Week.

Fildes shared his grandmother's political views on the need to care for the poor, and in 1869 he was hired on the staff of The Graphic, an illustrated weekly edited by social reformer William Lewson Thomas. Fildes, along with Thomas, believed in the power of visual images to change public opinion on issues such as poverty and injustice.

Fildes became a famous and popular artist, and in 1870 he left his newspaper job and returned to oil painting.

In the 80s of the 19th century, Luke Fildes became a portrait painter and in this field, by 1900, he became one of the most successful and highly paid artists in England. He painted portraits of several members of the royal family, including that of Edward VII. In 1906 he was knighted.

Luke Fildes died on February 27, 1927.

His son, Paul Fildes, became an outstanding scientist.