(b Durham, 1797; d Paris, 1856). Printmaker, painter, instructor and writer, brother of (1) Theodore Henry Adolphus Fielding. The youngest of the Fielding brothers, Newton divided his life between London and Paris, marrying a French woman in 1833. He arrived in Paris in late 1821 or early 1822 and worked with his brother Thales for the publisher J. F. d’Ostervald. He acquired a considerable reputation for small-scale, brightly coloured and delicately worked watercolours of animals and birds in landscape. While this genre was very much his own invention, it owed much to the sporting tradition of the Alken family (much admired in France), to natural history in the manner of Thomas Bewick and to the literary tradition of Aesop and La Fontaine (e.g. Ducks, 1849, London, V&A; and the Fox and the Crow, 1827, Paris, Louvre). His work became well known through his lithographed albums (e.g. Croquis par Newton Fielding; Paris and London, 1829). He enjoyed the friendship of Delacroix and the dealer Charles Schroth and in 1827 was employed as drawing-master to the family of King Louis-Philippe. Between 1831 and 1833 he shared a studio with William Callow. The two artists collaborated, Callow painting landscapes and Newton introducing staffage. Lacking the secure posts occupied by his brothers Theodore and Thales, he suffered hardship towards the end of his life when the market for instruction manuals had been flooded both in Britain and France.

Part of the Fielding family

• Fielding, Newton (Limbird Smith)
  • Fielding: (1) Theodore Henry Adolphus Fielding
  • Fielding: (4) Thales Fielding