Nathan Théodore Fielding

Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 GBP

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Description

Nathan Théodore Fielding
Portrait of Harriet Prestian (b. 1786), bust length in a white dress and bonnet
inscribed with the sitter's identity on a label on the reverse: Harriet......restian / born Feb21^. 1786 ^. London / Painted by M^r. Fielding / Stamford 1793
oil on canvas, oval

Catalogue Note

Born in Sowerby, near Halifax, Nathan Fielding established his reputation as a portrait painter. His stylistic affinity with the highly regarded German painter, Balthasar Denner, earned him the sobriquet of "the English Denner". He was father of the the watercolourist Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding (1787-1855).