Frederick McCubbin
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Frederick McCubbin (25 February 1855 – 20 December 1917) was an Australian artist and prominent participant of the Heidelberg School of Art Movement, also known as Australian Impressionism.
Early years and background
McCubbin, the third of eight children of baker Alexander McCubbin (from Ayrshire, Scotland), and his English wife Anne, née McWilliams, were born in Melbourne. McCubbin attended West Melbourne Common School and St Paul's School, Swanston Street, under William Willmett's supervision. After studying art at the National Gallery of Victoria's School of Design, where he met Tom Roberts and studied under Eugene von Guerard, he continued as solicitor's clerk, a coach painter, and in his family's bakery. He studied at the Victorian Academy of the Arts and exhibited there in 1876 and 1882, selling his first painting in 1880. He became responsible for the family business in this period, following his father's death.
Career
By the early 1880s, McCubbin's work began to attract considerable attention and won a number of prizes from the National Gallery, including a first prize in 1883 in their annual student exhibition. By the mid-1880s he concentrated more on painting the Australian bush, the works for which he became notable.
In 1883, McCubbin received first prize in the first annual Gallery students' exhibition, for best studies in colour and drawing. In 1888, he became instructor and master of the School of Design at the National Gallery. In this position he taught a number of students who themselves became prominent Australian artists, including Charles Conder and Arthur Streeton.
McCubbin was exhibiting and perhaps painting in the studio of his friend Tom Roberts in the Grosvenor Chambers in Collins St by May 1888. His son, Louis, would later have a studio in the same building.
McCubbin married Annie Moriarty in March 1889. They had seven children, of whom their son Louis McCubbin became an artist and director of the Art Gallery of South Australia 1936–1950. A grandson, Charles, also became an artist.
In 1901 McCubbin and his family moved to Mount Macedon, transporting a prefabricated English style home up onto the northern slopes of the mountain which they named Fontainebleau. It was in this beautiful setting, in 1904, that he painted The Pioneer, amongst many other works, and this is the only place that McCubbin ever painted fairies. The house survived the Ash Wednesday fires and stands today as a testament to the artist. It was at Macedon that he was inspired by the surrounding bush to experiment with the light and its effects on colour in nature.
McCubbin continued to paint through the first two decades of the 20th century, though by the beginning of World War I his health began to fail. He traveled to England in 1907 and visited Tasmania, but aside from these relatively short excursions lived most of his life in Melbourne. There he taught at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School, where his students included painter Hilda Rix Nicholas and the photographer Ruth Hollick.
In 1912 he became the founding member of the Australian Art Association.
McCubbin died in 1917 from a heart attack.
