Luke Fildes
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Luke Fildes
by Harry Furniss
Pen and ink on paper, 1880s-1900s
7 1/2 in. x 4 3/4 in. (192 mm x 120 mm)
NPG 3570
Inscriptionback to top
Signed in ink lower right: ‘Hy.F’;
inscr. in ink top left: ‘Luke Fildes R.A.’;
and in ink at bottom centre: ‘The mystery of Edwin Drood’.
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Sitter and artist were fellow members of the Savage Club,[1] and this drawing may have been done there or at a comparable gathering. Furniss does not, however, mention Fildes in any of his memoirs.
The sitter’s accessories allude to his reputation as a ‘black and white’ artist, as does the inscription, marking Fildes’s rise to fame with illustrations to Dickens’s unfinished novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870). Though the drawing could date from this era, the inscriptions cannot be earlier than 1887, the year Fildes was elected RA.
See NPG collection 3337–3535, 3554–3620
Dr Jan Marsh
Footnotesback to top
1) See ‘All known portraits, By other artists, 1890’ for A Savage Club Saturday Night by W.H. Bartlett, where both men are pictured.
Physical descriptionback to top
Half-length, near-profile to right, in evening dress, holding pen and illustration representing Edwin Drood.
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