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FULLER, GEORGE (1822—1884)

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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 295 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FULLER, See also:GEORGE (1822—1884) , See also:American figure and portrait painter, was See also:born at See also:Deerfield, See also:Massachusetts, in 1822. At the See also:age of twenty he entered the studio of the sculptor H. K. See also:Brown, at See also:Albany, New See also:York, where he See also:drew from the See also:cast and modelled heads. Having attained some proficiency he went about the See also:country See also:painting portraits, settling at length in See also:Boston, where he studied the See also:works of the earlier Americans, See also:Stuart, See also:Copley and See also:Allston. After three years in that See also:city, and twelve in New York, where in 1857 he was elected a member of the See also:National See also:Academy of See also:Design, he went to See also:Europe for a brief visit and for study. During all this See also:time his See also:work had received little recognition and practically no See also:financial encouragement, and on his return he settled on the See also:family See also:farm at Deerfield, where he continued to work in his own way with no thought of the outside See also:world. In 1816, however, he was forced by pressing needs to dispose of his work, and he sent some pictures to a dealer in Boston, where he met with immediate success, financial and See also:artistic, and for the remaining eight years of his See also:life he never lacked patrons. He died in Boston on the 21st of See also:March 1884. He was a poetic painter, and a dreamer of delicate fancies and See also:quaint, intangible phases of nature, his canvases being usually enveloped in a brown mist that renders the outlines vague.

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