Saturday, May 24, 2014

SAMUEL LUKE FILDES

The Doctor (exhibited 1891)


No.42

Fildes 1843-1927 was a British painter and illustrator. When his wood engraving "Houseless and Hungry" depicting homeless paupers queuing outside the casual ward of a workhouse was seen by Charles Dickens, the author commissioned Fildes to illustrate "The Mystery of Edwin Drood."

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