Luke Fildes (born Luke Fildes; 18 October 1844, Liverpool - February 27, 1927) - English illustrator.
He graduated from the Royal College of Art and the Royal Academy of Arts.
Samuel Luke Fildes was born in Liverpool on October 18, 1844. When he was a child, his education plays a grandmother, Mary Fildes, which was a political activist and served as one of the speakers at the meetings in Manchester. Mary Fildes was a leading figure in the women's movement Chartists.
At age seventeen, Luke Fildes became a student Uorringtonskoy art school. In 1863 Fildes won a scholarship that allowed him to study in London. Fildes moved to South Kensington Art School, where he meets Frank Hall and Hubert von Gerkomera. At all three had a great influence of Frederick Walker, leader of the movement of social realism in Britain.
By the end of 1860 Fildes earned money as an illustrator of such popular periodicals as «Cornhill Magazine» and «Once a Week».
Fildes shared political beliefs of his grandmother on the need to care for the poor, in 1869, he joined the staff of the newspaper «The Graphic», an illustrated weekly newspaper, whose editor was a social reformer William Lyuson Thomas. Fildes, along with Thomas believed that the power of visual images capable of changing public opinion on topics such as poverty and injustice.
Fildes is well known and popular artist, and in 1870 he left his job in the newspaper and returned to oil painting.
In the 80 years of the XIX century, Luke Fildes became portraitist and in this field by 1900 becomes one of the most successful and highly paid artists of England. He has written portraits of several members of the royal family, including a portrait of Edward VII. In 1906 he initiated into the Knights.
Luke Fildes died February 27, 1927.
His son, Paul Fildes, became an outstanding scientist
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