Mid-Georgian Portraits Catalogue
Sir John Fielding (1721-1780), Magistrate and social reformer
- Gallery portraits
- All known portraits
- Biography and References
1757
Miniature attributed to Nathaniel Hone, half length wearing dark eye band, with his first wife and adopted daughter (illus. R. Leslie-Melville, Fielding, 1934, f.p.6).
1762
Painting by Nathaniel Hone, see NPG 5515.
1769
Painting by James Williams, exhibited Free Society of Artists, London, 1769 (240, A deception), see Wal. Soc., XXVII, p 82.
1771
Bust by James Paine jr., exhibited Society of Artists, London, 1771 (224).
1773
Painting by Nathaniel Hone, half length, bare-headed, wearing a deep red cloak, his arms resting on a copy of The Law which weighs down a serpent. Middlesex Sessions. Engraved J. R. Smith 1773 (exhibited Society of Artists, London, 1774, no.267; illus. Leslie-Melville, Fielding, 1934, f.p.184).
1774
Medal, bust derived from the 1773 Hone portrait; inscribed, verso: CAECUS LATENTES SCRVTATVR. SENEX VIOLENTOS COERCET. (L. Brown, A Catalogue of British Historical Medals 1760-1790: The Accession of George III to the Death of William IV, 1980, no.187).
Engraved on stone by John Kirk, a head, exhibited Society of Artists, London, 1774 (under 129).
c.1774
Anon. engravings: bust-length oval with dark eye band; and, reversed, with a portrait of Lady Fielding (presumably his second wife, whom he married 1774).
1778
Painting by M. W. Peters, three-quarter length seated, a band just above his eyes, as Chairman of the Quarter Sessions for the City of Westminster, exhibited RA 1778 (231). Engraved W. Dickinson 1778 (illus. Leslie-Melville, Fielding, 1934, f.p.146, and seen in S. De Wilde’s The Village Lawyer in the Garrick Club, illus. G. Ashton, Pictures in the Garrick Club, ed. K. A. Burnim & A. Wilton, 1997, no.40). A half-length miniature version sold Christie’s, 20 March 1990, lot 136, and Phillips, 22 April 1991, lot 108.
A busto by Charles Harris, large as life, was advertised in his trade cat. of c.1793 at two guineas.
This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: John Ingamells, National Portrait Gallery: Mid-Georgian Portraits 1760-1790, National Portrait Gallery, 2004, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.
Miniature attributed to Nathaniel Hone, half length wearing dark eye band, with his first wife and adopted daughter (illus. R. Leslie-Melville, Fielding, 1934, f.p.6).
1762
Painting by Nathaniel Hone, see NPG 5515.
1769
Painting by James Williams, exhibited Free Society of Artists, London, 1769 (240, A deception), see Wal. Soc., XXVII, p 82.
1771
Bust by James Paine jr., exhibited Society of Artists, London, 1771 (224).
1773
Painting by Nathaniel Hone, half length, bare-headed, wearing a deep red cloak, his arms resting on a copy of The Law which weighs down a serpent. Middlesex Sessions. Engraved J. R. Smith 1773 (exhibited Society of Artists, London, 1774, no.267; illus. Leslie-Melville, Fielding, 1934, f.p.184).
1774
Medal, bust derived from the 1773 Hone portrait; inscribed, verso: CAECUS LATENTES SCRVTATVR. SENEX VIOLENTOS COERCET. (L. Brown, A Catalogue of British Historical Medals 1760-1790: The Accession of George III to the Death of William IV, 1980, no.187).
Engraved on stone by John Kirk, a head, exhibited Society of Artists, London, 1774 (under 129).
c.1774
Anon. engravings: bust-length oval with dark eye band; and, reversed, with a portrait of Lady Fielding (presumably his second wife, whom he married 1774).
1778
Painting by M. W. Peters, three-quarter length seated, a band just above his eyes, as Chairman of the Quarter Sessions for the City of Westminster, exhibited RA 1778 (231). Engraved W. Dickinson 1778 (illus. Leslie-Melville, Fielding, 1934, f.p.146, and seen in S. De Wilde’s The Village Lawyer in the Garrick Club, illus. G. Ashton, Pictures in the Garrick Club, ed. K. A. Burnim & A. Wilton, 1997, no.40). A half-length miniature version sold Christie’s, 20 March 1990, lot 136, and Phillips, 22 April 1991, lot 108.
A busto by Charles Harris, large as life, was advertised in his trade cat. of c.1793 at two guineas.
This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: John Ingamells, National Portrait Gallery: Mid-Georgian Portraits 1760-1790, National Portrait Gallery, 2004, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.