Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Sir Samuel Luke Fildes, commonly known as Luke Fildes, was an illustrator before turning to portrait painting. He was commissioned by the novelist Charles Dickens to illustrate his last novel ‘The Mystery of Edwin Drood’, published in 1870. In 1874 Fildes’ large painting of ‘Applicants for Admission to a Casual Ward’, showing the destitute queuing in hope of a night of shelter, brought him overnight fame, when it was exhibited at the Royal Academy, accompanied by a quote from Dickens. Fildes continued to paint social realist subjects, but it was as a portrait painter that he found fame and fortune. His painting of the Princess of Wales (later Queen Alexandra) of 1894 led to a series of royal commissions.

People

Edward VII

Places

Subjects

royal portrait, beard, moustache, man, ceremonial costume, ermine, robe, ring, wedding ring, riband, tassel, ribbon (as Subject - costume accessory), livery collar, orb, throne, sceptre, crown, Order of St. Patrick, Order of the Garter, Order of the Thistle, Order of the Bath, King, column, curtain, carpet, table (as Subject)

Materials & Techniques

photogravure, aquatint photogravure

Artist

Sir Samuel Luke Fildes (1843 - 1927)
Joseph Bishop Pratt (1854 - 1910)

Title

King Edward VII (1841-1910) Reigned 1901-10

Date

Medium

Aquatint photogravure

Acquisition

Presented by the Malayan Federal Government, April 1958

Inscription

below image: Luke Fildes / Joseph B. Pratt

GAC number

4605