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Sir Samuel Luke Fildes KCVO RA (3 October 1843 – 28 February 1927) was a British painter and illustrator born in Liverpool and trained at the South Kensington and Royal Academy Schools. He was the grandson of the political activist Mary Fildes .
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.
Sir Samuel Luke Fildes KCVO RA (3 October 1843 – 28 February 1927) was an English painter and illustrator born in Liverpool and trained at the South Kensington and Royal Academy schools. He was the grandson of the political activist Mary Fildes.
Apr 13, 2005 · His most celebrated painting in this vein is Applicants to a Casual Ward (1874), The Widower (1876), and The Return of the Penitent (1876). During the 1880s Fildes shifted to the highly lucrative field of portraiture.
Sir Samuel Luke Fildes (3 October 1843 – 28 February 1927) was a British painter and illustrator born in Liverpool and trained at the South Kensington and Royal Academy Schools. He was the grandson of the political activist Mary Fildes.
One of the most recognized paintings of Western medicine, Luke Fildes’ The Doctor aimed to represent a caring physician in a humble setting during an era when people living with poverty rarely had access to health care and nearly all physicians were White men.
Sep 21, 2021 · Biography. Fildes and Dickens. Fildes painting The Doctor. The House and Studio of Luke Fildes. Appears in Group portrait of the artists who worked for Graphic. The gravestone of Luke and Fanny Fildes. Obituary in The Times. His monument in Brookwood Cemetery.
