George fuller biography

A year or so later, he went to Illinois with a survey team for the railroad, and continued working with the survey team for a couple of years. Fuller then returned home once again, entered Deerfield Academy , and began to paint in his spare time. In , his desire to paint overcame his parents' opposition. He joined his half-brother Augustus as an itinerant painter, and enjoyed some success painting portraits in northern New York.

That winter he went to Albany where he studied painting with Henry Kirke Brown for nine months. The next two winters, he studied painting with the Boston Artists' Association , working on the family farm in the summers. In he sold A Nun at Confession for six dollars. He spent most of the next ten years in New York. Some winters he spent in the southern United States painting portraits and scenes about local life.

Friends included painter E. Billings , with whom he travelled in the south. His father died in , and he became aware that he would eventually need to return to the family farm to support his family. He married Agnes Higginson of Cambridge, Massachusetts in and brought her home to the Deerfield farm. US Congress. Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata All stub articles.

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George fuller biography

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He spent most of the next ten years in New York. Some winters he spent in the southern United States painting portraits and scenes about local life. Friends included painter E. Billings, with who he travelled in the south. His father died in , and he became aware that he would eventually need to return to the family farm to support his family.

He married Agnes Higginson of Cambridge, Massachusetts in and brought her home to the Deerfield farm. For the next fifteen years, he worked the farm and painted in his spare time in a studio converted form a carriage house. His farm failed in , and he turned to painting for his livelihood.