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__NOTOC__ Sir Samuel Luke Fildes, KCVO, RA (3 October 1843 – 28 February 1927) was an English painter and illustrator born at Liverpool and trained in the South Kensington and Royal Academy schools. He was the grandson of the Political activist Mary Fildes. ==Illustrator== At the age of seventeen Luke Fildes became a student at the Warrington School of Art. Fildes moved to the South Kensington Art School where he met Hubert von Herkomer and Frank Holl. All three men became influenced by the work of Frederick Walker, the leader of the social realist movement in Britain. Fildes shared his grandmother's concern for the poor and in 1869 joined the staff of ''The Graphic'' newspaper, an illustrated weekly began and edited by the social reformer, William Luson Thomas. Fildes shared Thomas' belief in the power of visual images to change public opinion on subjects such as poverty and injustice. Thomas hoped that the images in ''The Graphic'' would result in individual acts of charity and collective social action. Fildes' illustrations were in the black-and-white style popular in France and Germany during the era. He worked in a social realist style, compatible with the editorial direction of ''The Graphic'', and focussed on images depicting the destitute of London. ''The Graphic'' published an illustration completed by Fildes the day after Charles Dickens' death, showing Dickens' empty chair in his study; this illustration was widely reprinted worldwide, and inspired Vincent van Gogh's painting ''The Yellow Chair''. In the first edition of ''The Graphic'' newspaper that appeared in December 1869, Luke Fildes was asked to provide an illustration to accompany an article on the Houseless Poor Act, a new measure that allowed some of those people out of work to shelter for a night in the casual ward of a workhouse. The picture produced by Fildes showed a line of homeless people applying for tickets to stay overnight in the workhouse. The wood-engraving, entitled ''Houseless and Hungry'', was seen by John Everett Millais, who brought it to the attention of Charles Dickens; Dickens was so impressed that he immediately commissioned Fildes to illustrate ''The Mystery of Edwin Drood'' (a book Dickens never finished as he died while writing it). Fildes' illustrations also appeared in other mass-circulation periodicals: ''Sunday Magazine'', ''The Cornhill Magazine'', and ''The Gentleman's Magazine''. He also illustrated a number of books in addition to Dickens' ''Edwin Drood'', such as Thackeray's ''Catherine'' (1894).〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Luke Fildes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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