Commissioned by Henry Tate and first exhibited in 1981 at the Royal Academy, the painting “The Doctor” immediately became popular. Especially in the medical community and for many others, "The Doctor" represents an ideal of 19th-century medicine and retains much of its popularity for this reason (Kernahan). This image even appeared on postage stamps in the United States and Great Britain. This is one of fifty-seven original images of the new Tate Britain site donated by Henry Tate. Fildes paints a young boy lying on two chairs, his face lit by the glass lamp placed on the table. The doctor, dressed in a tailored suit, sits next to the makeshift bed and looks anxiously at his patient. The shade of a lamp is tilted so as to illuminate the two central characters: the doctor and the child. Although the majority of light comes from the lamp, some light also enters through the recessed window near the mother. It's daylight starting to peek through the windows. The doctor turns his back on the medicine in the bottle and the cup on the table and directs his gaze entirely towards the child. The extent of the youth's illness can be seen by the half-empty medicine bottle on the table, as well as the bowl and jug, used to relieve the boy's temperature, on the bench. The pieces of paper on the floor could be prescriptions written by the doctor for medications already taken. The boy's parents are pictured in the background. They are placed in such deep shadows that it is often difficult to distinguish these figures in reproductions. The boy's father, standing in the background, his hand on the shoulder of his wife whose hands are clasped as if in prayer, looks at the doctor's serious face. The mother sits at a table and hides her face in her tight body...... in the middle of a paper ......nstein could also have influenced Filde's fictional and romanticized painting of the tragic scene ( Kernahan). There is no standard equipment, nor any new technology in the image, which gives it a timeless feeling (Kernahan). In 1949 and 1952, "The Doctor" was used by the American Medical Association in a campaign against a nationalization proposal. medical care offered by Harry S Truman. It was printed on posters and brochures with the slogan "Keep politics out of this picture", playing on the idealization and romanticism of the image. The image is also still debated about its accuracy in relation to the era in which it was painted and to medicine as it was. It's still incredibly popular. After its first exhibition, nearly a million copies of the print were sold in the United States alone, and it was one of the first to make the working class a popular subject..