FILDES, SIR LUKE (1844-1927), English painter, was born at Liverpool, and trained in the South Kensington and Royal Academy schools. His "The Casual Ward" (1874), is at Royal Holloway college; "The Doctor" (1891), is in the National Gallery of British Art (Tate Gallery), London. He painted a number of pictures of Venetian life and many notable portraits, among them the coronation portraits of King Edward VII. and Queen Alexandra and of King George V. He was elected A.R.A. in 1879, and R.A. in 1887; was knighted in and made K.C.V.O. in 1918.
See David Croal Thomson, The Life and Work of Luke Fildes, R.A.