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The Doctor is an 1891 painting by Luke Fildes that depicts a Victorian doctor observing the critical stage in a child's illness while the parents gaze on helplessly from the periphery. It has been used to portray the values of the ideal physician and the inadequacies of the medical profession.
- 166 cm × 242 cm (65 in × 95 in)
- Luke Fildes
- 1891
portraits (4,491) individuals: male (1,841) work and occupations (5,453) medical (468) doctor (205) ‘The Doctor‘, Sir Luke Fildes, exhibited 1891 on display at Tate Britain.
The Doctor by Sir Samuel Luke Fildes, R. A. (1844-1927). 1891. Oil on canvas. Size: Support, 1664 × 2419 mm; frame: 2075 × 2875 × 210 mm. Collection: Tate. Reference N01522; presented by Sir Henry Tate in 1894. Image kindly released under the Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND (3.0 Unported) licence.
Mar 28, 2023 · published on 28 March 2023. Download Full Size Image. The Doctor, oil on canvas painting by Sir Luke Fildes (1843-1927), English Neo-Venetian artist, 1891. The painting shows a Victorian doctor watching over a sick child in a fisherman’s cottage while dawn breaks through the window.
In 1874 Luke Fildes married Fanny Woods, who was also an artist and the sister of Henry Woods. Fildes' first son, Philip, died of typhoid in 1877. The image of the doctor at his son's side during the ordeal left a lasting memory of professional devotion that inspired Fildes' 1891 work The Doctor .
- British
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When Fildes died in 1927 after a career spanning seven decades and marked by many commercial successes and even several royal portraits, his Times obituary nonetheless bore “ The Doctor ” as its sub-headline (“Sir Luke Fildes”) and sparked a lively discussion of the painting in the letters column for several issues thereafter (“Points From Lette...
Luke Fildes’ The Doctor aimed to represent a caring physician at a time when only the rich had access to such care. Despite anachronistic uses to market health-related products, celebrate milestones in medicine, and advocate for and against universal health insurance, The Doctor challenges us to think about what good doctoring is.
