FILDES, SAMUEL LUKE
$160.00
38860-1
(1843 - 1918) British artist, most remembered for his work called The Doctor. Based on the death of his son, the painting shows a concerned physician watching a dying child. It became one of the best-selling engravings of the Victorian era.A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo., London, Nov. 18, 1916, in part: "...I send you a little sketch of your stall and I hope you have some luck with it. It is of no artistic merit; but I value it..." Fildes mentions how the sketch was associated with his correspondent's father, who had since passed away. Very good.