Australia, Artist

Biography

Fred McCubbin is Notable.

Frederick (Fred) McCubbin ^[1] (1855-1917), painter and art teacher, was born on 25 February 1855 at 165 King Street, Melbourne, third son of Alexander McCubbin, baker from Ayrshire, Scotland, and his English wife Anne, née McWilliams. Educated at William Willmott's West Melbourne Common school and St Paul's School, Swanston Street, at about 14 he was placed in a solicitor's office. He soon joined the family business and drove a baker's cart before being apprenticed to a coach-painter.

In 1869 he enrolled at the Artisans' School of Design, Carlton, and later studied drawing under Thomas Clark at the school of design, National Gallery of Victoria. He completed his coach-painting apprenticeship in 1875 but next year his hopes for furthering his studies at the gallery were curtailed by the death of his father and the need to assist with the family business. McCubbin continued in the school of design under O. R. Campbell, and joined the school of painting as well under Eugen von Guerard in 1877. Tom Roberts and Mackennal were fellow students. He remained at the art schools on the appointment of G. F. Folingsby in 1882 and next year was awarded the trustees' first prize in the first of the annual students' exhibitions.

Frederick McCubbin married Annie Lucy Moriarty at St Ignatius Church, Richmond, on 5 March 1889. . . His son Louis Frederick McCubbin 1890–1952 was also a renowned artist, war artist and later Art Gallery Director.

From his death notice from the Argus of Friday December 21 on page 1 we see:

Marriage

• Australia, Marriage Index, 1788-1950

Name: Frede McCubbin [Frederick McCubbin] Marriage Date: 1889 Marriage Place: Victoria Registration Date: 1889 Registration Place: Victoria, Australia Spouse: Annie Lisee Moriarty Registration Number: 986

People – LifeTree

• The McCubbin Family History Association and Frederick McCubbin

• McCubbin’s monumental painting The pioneer (1904)

• Frederick McCubbin b. 25 February 1855
  from the Design & Art Australia website at:

Sources

1. ↑ David Thomas, McCubbin, Frederick (Fred) (1855–1917), Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University,
   published first in hardcopy 1986, accessed online 24 December 2018.

See also:

• Wikidata: Item Q965809, en:Wikipedia

• Frederick McCubbin from the Art Gallery of New South Wales website:

• Family Notices from The Argus
  (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) of Friday 21 December 1917, Page 1. at:

• OBITUARY MR. F. McCUBBIN. A DISTINGUISHED ARTIST. from The Argus
  (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) of Friday 21 December 1917, Page 11. at:

• Burial information from the Last Resting Place for Australian Artists at:

• On the Find a Grave website at:

• Marriage Notice: 1889 'Family Notices', The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), 4 May, p. 5. , viewed 09 Jan 2024, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article197324627

• Government of Victoria. Victoria Registry of Births Deaths & Marriages (accessed 09 Jan 2024). Marriage Index. Index entry for Fredk MCCUBBIN. Spouse's name: MORIARTY, Annie Lisee; Reg. year: 1889; Reg. number: 986/1889