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(4) Thales Fielding
(b Yorkshire, 1793; d London, 20 Dec 1837). Painter and drawing-master, brother of (1) Theodore Henry Adolphus Fielding. The fourth son of Nathan Theodore Fielding, Thales went to work in Paris in 1821 or spring 1822. He was employed, with his brother Newton, by the publisher J. F. d’Ostervald. He was in Paris for at least a year before the name Fielding is first mentioned in the journal of Delacroix. Macbeth and the Witches (exh. Salon 1824; untraced) was much admired by Stendhal and may have some connection with the lithograph of the same subject that Delacroix executed soon after. Delacroix and Thales painted each other’s portraits (respectively: c. 1824, Paris, priv. col.; exh. RA 1827, untraced), probably in the studio that Thales occupied in 1824 until his departure for England in October, when Delacroix took it over. It was presumably on the Fieldings’ advice that Delacroix visited London in 1825, at which time he described Thales, who acted as guide, as ‘le meilleur enfant possible’. Thales possessed an impressionistic, fluid watercolour technique, which he applied extensively to figure subjects as well as landscapes (for example, Hop Picking; 1831; New Haven, CT, Yale Cent. Brit. A.; and Crossing Solway Sands; n.d.; U. Manchester, Whitworth A.G.). In 1836 he was appointed instructor at the Military Academy, Woolwich.
Part of the Fielding family
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