Copley Fielding

Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding (22 November 1787 – 3 March 1855), commonly called Copley Fielding, was an English painter born in Sowerby, near Halifax, and famous for his watercolour landscapes.

He won a gold medal at the Paris Salon of 1824 alongside Richard Parkes Bonington and John Constable.

Copley Fielding was a painter of much elegance, taste and accomplishment and has always been highly popular with purchasers.

He painted a vast number of all sorts of views (occasionally in oil-colour) including marine subjects.

Among the engraved specimens of his art is the Annual of British Landscape Scenery, published in 1839.