Theodore Henry Adolphus Fielding (1781–1851) was an English painter, engraver, and author.

Life

Fielding was the eldest son of Nathan Theodore Fielding

Nathan Theodore Fielding

Nathan Theodore Fielding , was an English painter.Fielding was a native of Yorkshire, and resided near Halifax. He had a considerable local reputation, and was especially noted for his portraits of aged people, executed in Balthasar Denner's style, with attention to the wrinkles of the skin and...

. Like his brothers he painted in water-colours, and in 1799 sent to the Royal Academy

Royal Academy

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 ‘A View of the North Tyne, near Billingham, Northumberland.’ In 1814 he sent to the British Institution

British Institution

The British Institution was a private 19th-century society in London formed to exhibit the works of living and dead artists; it was also known as the Pall Mall Picture Galleries or the British Gallery...

 ‘A Sleeping Bacchus.’ He continued to exhibit at both exhibitions, but it is sometimes difficult to distinguish his works from those of his younger brother, Thales Fielding

Thales Fielding

Thales Fielding was an English water-colour painter.-Life:Fielding was the third son of Nathan Theodore Fielding, and like his brothers is mainly known as a painter in water-colours. He was an associate exhibitor of the Royal Society of Painters in Water-colours, and for some years teacher of...

. He was appointed teacher of drawing and perspective at the East India Company

East India Company

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's Military College at Addiscombe

Addiscombe

Addiscombe is a district of south London, England, located in the London Borough of Croydon. It is situated south of Charing Cross.It is situated just to the northeast of central Croydon, and is home to a high proportion of people who commute to Central London, owing to its proximity to the busy...

, and lived at Croydon

Croydon

Croydon is a town in South London, England, located within the London Borough of Croydon to which it gives its name. It is situated south of Charing Cross...

, in the neighbourhood, until his death, which occurred on 11 July 1851, at the age of seventy.

Workss

Fielding worked also in stipple and aquatint, and published numerous sets of engravings in the latter style, including a set of views as illustrations to ‘Excursion sur les côtes et dans les ports de Normandie,’ after Bonington and others; ‘Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancashire Illustrated’ (44 plates, 1822); ‘A Series of Views in the West Indies’ (1827); ‘Ten Aquatint Coloured Engravings from a work containing 48 Subjects of Landscape Scenery, principally Views in or near Bath, painted by Benjamin Barker’ (1824); ‘British Castles; or, a Compendious History of the Ancient Military Structures of Great Britain’ (1825); ‘A Picturesque Tour of the River Wye, from its Source to its Junction with the Severn, from Drawings by Copley Fielding.’

Fielding also published some works on the practice of art:

• ‘On Painting in Oil and Water-colours for Landscape or Portraits,’ ‘Index of Colours and Mixed Tints’ (1830),
• ‘On the Theory of Painting’ (1836),
• ‘Synopsis of Practical Perspective, lineal and aerial, with Remarks on Sketching from Nature’ (1829),
• ‘The Knowledge and Restoration of Oil-paintings, the Modes of Judging between Copies and Originals, and a brief Life of the principal Masters in the different Schools of Painting’ (1847), and
• ‘The Art of Engraving, with the various Modes of Operation,’ &c. (1844); this was mostly reprinted in Robert Hoe's edition of Joseph Maberly's ‘Print Collector’ (1880).