biography
| name: |
McCubbin, Frederick
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| male
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| lived:
| (1855–1917)
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| biography:
| Landscape painter, born in Melbourne, Victoria, SE Australia. A part-time artist, working in his father's bakery until 1877, he became teacher of drawing at the National Gallery of Victoria's Art School in 1886, a position which he held until his death. With other painters, including Tom Roberts, he established the first of the artist camps which became the Heidelberg school of Australian painting. Also a successful portraitist, he exhibited in London and Paris in 1897. |
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