FIELDING, ANTHONY VANDYKE COPLEY (1787 1855), commonly called Copley Fielding, English landscape painter (son of a portrait painter), became at an early age a pupil of John Varley. He confined himself almost exclusively to water colours. In 1810 he became an associate exhibitor in the Water-colour Society, in 1813 a full member and in 1831 presi dent. He died at Worthing in March 1855. Specimens of his work are to be seen in the water-colour gallery of the Victoria and Al bert Museum, London, of dates ranging from 1829 to 185o.