| Dates: | 1781 - 1851, 11 July |
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John Falconer, British Library
A Biographical Dictionary of 19th Century Photographers in South and South-East Asia |
Amateur, England
A member of the family of distinguished watercolourists; son of Nathan Theodore Fielding and brother of Newton Smith Fielding and Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding. Teacher of drawing and perspective at Addiscombe Military College. His The Art of Engraving (M. A. Nattali, London, 1844) contains a short closing chapter on photography in both its historical and practical aspects: ‘Such is a slight sketch of the different methods of photogenic drawing, which we have introduced into this work rather from a hope of what it will do, than what it has done; though at the same time we must certainly consider it as the most wonderful discovery that has ever taken place in the fine arts.’
His description of the processes argues at least some practical experience, and it is not improbable that some of this information was passed on to his pupils at Addiscombe.[1]
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- Λ See entry in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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