Sir Samuel Luke Fildes RA (1843-1927) was an English painter and illustrator born at Liverpool and trained in the South Kensington and Royal Academy schools. At the age of seventeen Luke Fildes became a student at the Warrington School of Art. Fildes moved to 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. Wikipedia
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Luke Fildes was born in Liverpool in 1843. When he was a child he was adopted by his grandmother, Mary Fildes , a political activist who was one of the speakers at the Manchester meeting that ended in the Peterloo Massacre . In the 1840s Mary Fildes ran www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jfildes.htm
