Albert Henry Fullwood (15 March 1863 – 1 October 1930) was an Australian artist who made a significant contribution to art in Australia. He painted with Heidelberg School artists around Melbourne and moved with Tom Roberts and Arthur Streeton to live and paint at their camp in Sirius Cove, Sydney. Fullwood was the Australian official war artist to the 5th Division in the World War I.[1][2]
Albert Henry Fullwood | |
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 Fullwood in 1896 | |
| Born | 15 March 1863 |
| Died | 1 October 1930 (aged 67) Waverley, New South Wales, Australia |
| Resting place | Rookwood Cemetery |
| Nationality | British-Australian |
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| Known for |
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| Movement | Heidelberg School |
| Spouse |
Clyda Blanche Newman
(m. 1896) |
| Elected | Society of Artists |
Biography
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Fullwood was born in Hockely, Birmingham, son of Frederick John Fullwood, jeweller, and his wife Emma, née Barr. From 1878, Fullwood studied art at evening classes at the Birmingham Institute. He studied art at the Birmingham School of Landscape Art at the Birmingham YMCA. After graduation, he migrated to Sydney in 1883 and obtained work at John Sands Limited as a lithographic draughtsman and designer. He joined the Art Society of New South Wales in 1884, and shortly afterwards obtained a position on the staff of the Picturesque Atlas of Australia, for which he traveled a good deal through Northern Australia and did many drawings. He later worked on The Sydney Mail and other illustrated papers of the time. He kept up his painting, and in 1892 two of his water-colours were purchased for the national gallery at Sydney.
Albert Fullwood painted alongside members of the Heidelberg School at Eaglemont around 1889 to 1891. This period was a crucial time for the Heidelberg School, as it marked the peak of their plein air painting activities.
In 1895 Fullwood took a leading part in forming the Society of Artists in Sydney and was a member of its first council. He returned to Europe in 1900 by way of America, holding on the way a very successful exhibition of his work in New York City. Making London his headquarters, Fullwood exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1901, 1904, and later years, and also at various exhibitions in Europe. Soon after World War I started, Fullwood joined the Allied Art Corps; later he was a sergeant in the Royal Army Medical Corps based at the 3rd London General Hospital, Wandsworth, and later an Australian official war artist.[3] He returned to Sydney in 1920 and worked chiefly in water-colour and etching.[2] Fullwood was a co-founder, with John Shirlow, of the Australian Painter-Etchers' Society. He died from pneumonia in the War Memorial Hospital, Waverley, New South Wales.[1]
Fullwood is represented in numerous galleries including the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the National Gallery of Victoria, the Art Gallery of South Australia, the Wollongong Art Gallery, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts, and in the Australian War Memorial.[4] A significant painting of the early Ballarat streetscape is held by Ballarat Art Gallery and a very large watercolour of Chalk Quarries (c. 1910) is held in a private collection in Doreen, Victoria.
Personal life
editHe married Clyda Blanche Newman, daughter of photographer John Hubert Newman, on 13 October 1896 in Sydney. They had two sons, Philip L. Fullwood and Geoffrey Barr Fullwood, and a daughter Marjorie Clyda. Both Philip and Marjorie pre-deceased him.
Gallery
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The Swing, 1892 -
An Australian River, 1896
References
edit- ^ a b Terry, Martin (1981). "Fullwood, Albert Henry (1863 - 1930)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 8. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. pp. 598–599. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 26 October 2008.
- ^ a b Serle, Percival (1949). "Fullwood, Albert Henry". Dictionary of Australian Biography. Sydney: Angus & Robertson. Retrieved 26 October 2008.
- ^ 'Camofleur', "Musketeers of Brush and Pencil with the A.I.F.: Art Under Fire: The Battlefield as Studio", The (Melbourne) Herald, (1 February 1919), p. 4.
- ^ Gray, Anne (1983). A. Henry Fullwood: War Paintings. Australian War Memorial. ISBN 0642-99431-5.
Note: A catalogue at the end of the book lists 58 works held by the AWM
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