[1] Field quickly received employment at Cooley, Farwell & Co, where his brother Marshall also worked.

[4] On October 29, 1879, at the age of 38, Field wed the 21-year-old Florence Lathrop at the Byrd's Nest Chapel, in Elmhurst, Illinois.

[5][6] Florence, a daughter of Jedediah Hyde Lathrop, was a member of the prestigious Barbour family.

[12] In the years after retiring from his brother's company, Field traveled extensively abroad.

[1] Field was involved in other business ventures in addition to working at his brother's company.

At one point, he was one of the greatest stock holders in the West Division Street railway company.

This trust contained all of the oil paintings that Field had owned, except those that were family portraits.

The included works of Jules Breton, Jean-Charles Cazin, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, John Constable, Charles-François Daubigny Joseph DeCamp, Eugène Delacroix, Édouard Detaille, Narcisse Virgilio Díaz, Jules Dupré, Ernest Hébert, Ludwig Knaus, Jean-François Millet, Henri Rousseau, Adolf Schreyer, Constant Troyon.

[19][18] This was considered the most important accession that the Art Institute of Chicago had received in the fourteen years it had existed.

[20] Additionally, in 1893, Field's widow commissioned, in his memory, two lion sculptures by Edward Kemeys for the Art Institute of Chicago which adorn the main entrance of the Art Institute of Chicago Building to this day.