The pioneer frederick mccubbin
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Frederick McCubbin
Biography
Frederick McCubbin was one of the key founders of the Heidelberg school of Australian impressionism. Like Tom Roberts and Arthur Streeton, McCubbin subsequently became inspired during the 1890s to create large-scale pioneering history subjects, which contributed to the formation of a mythic national iconography in the years leading up to Federation.
The son of a baker, McCubbin began sketching in the inner suburbs of Melbourne in the late 1860s, where he met Louis Buvelot, a Swiss-born artist whose naturalistic landscapes of the domesticated Australian countryside had a great impact on his later work. From 1867 to 1870 McCubbin attended evening classes at the Artisans School of Design at Carlton where he befriended fellow artists Louis Abrahams and Charles Douglas Richardson. He then enrolled at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School and studied under the romantic landscape painter Eugene von Guérard and later with George Folingsby, an artist whose primary interest lay in academic figure and narrative painting and who had a substantial influen
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The Artists
Frederick McCubbin
The Macedon Years
Photograph of Fontainebleau, Mount Macedon, Frederick McCubbin's home.
This photograph shows the later chalet-like additions at the rear and laundry on the far left.
The bush in the background is where the Frederick McCubbin work 'The Pioneer' was painted.
Kathleen Mangan Collection
24 September this year marks the Centenary of the purchase of 'Fontainebleau', the McCubbin family property on Mount Macedon.
This was a significant event in the life of Frederick McCubbin, for not only was it the first and only home that his family ever owned, but the surrounding Macedon bushland provided McCubbin with the inspiration for some of his most memorable and best loved works.
His discovery of 'Fontainebleau' took place during the summer of 1900, while on holiday to the Mount with his wife and family.
1900 had been a busy and traumatic year for the McCubbin family. They had moved from the house they were renting in New Street, Brighton to another rental property, this time at 46 Drummond Street, Carlton, and it was a
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Frederick McCubbin
Australian artist (1855-1917)
Frederick McCubbin (25 February 1855 – 20 December 1917) was an Australian artist, art teacher and prominent member of the Heidelberg School art movement, also known as Australian impressionism.
Born and raised in Melbourne, Victoria, McCubbin studied at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School under a number of artists, notably Eugene von Guerard and later George Folingsby. One of his former classmates, Tom Roberts, returned from art training in Europe in 1885, and that summer they established the Box Hill artists' camp, where they were joined by Arthur Streeton and Charles Conder. These artists formed the nucleus of what became known as the Heidelberg School, a plein air art movement named after Heidelberg, the site of another one of their camps. During this time, he began teaching at the National Gallery school, and later served as president of both the Victorian Artists' Society and the Australian Art Association.
Concerned with capturing the national life of Australia, McCubbin produced a number of large landscap
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