FULLER, GEORGE (1822-1884), American figure- and portrait-painter, was born at Deerfield (Mass.), in 1822. At the age of 20 he entered the studio of the sculptor H. K. Brown, at Albany (N.Y.) , where he drew from the cast and modelled heads.
Having attained some proficiency he went about the country painting portraits, settling at length in Boston, where he studied the works of the earlier Americans, Stuart, Copley and Allston. After three years in that city, and 12 years in New York, where in 1857 he was elected a member of the National Academy of Design, he went to Europe for a brief visit and for study. Dur ing all this time his work had received little recognition and prac tically no financial encouragement, and on his return he settled on the family farm at Deerfield, where he continued to work in his own way with no thought of the outside world. In 1876, 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 artistic, and for the remain ing eight years of his life he never lacked patrons. He died in Boston on March 21, 1884. Among his noteworthy canvases are: "The Turkey Pasture," "Romany Girl," "And she was a Witch," "Nydia," "Winifred Dysart" and "The Quadroon."