Albert Henry Fullwood

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Albert Henry Fullwood
Australian
Alma mater
  • Birmingham Institute
  • Birmingham School of Landscape Art
Known for
MovementHeidelberg School
Spouse
Clyda Blanche Newman
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(m. 1896)​
ElectedSociety of Artists

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

World War I.[1][2]

Biography

Fullwood standing fourth from the left in this group portrait of Australian official war artists, 1916-1918 by George Coates, 1920

Fullwood was born in

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.

In 1895 Fullwood took a leading part in forming 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. Fullwood was a co-founder, with John Shirlow
, of the Australian Painter-Etchers' Society.

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

He 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

  • The Swing, 1892
    The Swing, 1892
  • An Australian River, 1896
    An Australian River, 1896

References

  1. ISSN 1833-7538
    . Retrieved 26 October 2008.
  2. ^ Serle, Percival (1949). "Fullwood, Albert Henry". Dictionary of Australian Biography. Sydney: Angus & Robertson. Retrieved 26 October 2008.
  3. ^ '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.
  4. ISBN 0642-99431-5
    . Note: A catalogue at the end of the book lists 58 works held by the AWM

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