Frederick McCubbin (1855-1917)

Professions: Landscape painter; Porträtmaler; Genre Painter; Painter

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  FREDERICK MCCUBBIN 1855-1917 YARRA RIVER FROM KENSINGTON ROAD, SOUTH YARRA

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  FREDERICK MCCUBBIN 1855-1917 EVENING IN THE BUSH

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  Sawing Timber

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  FREDERICK MCCUBBIN 1855-1917

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Frederick McCubbin Biography

(b Melbourne, 25 Feb 1855; d Melbourne, 20 Dec 1917). Australian painter and teacher. A baker’s son, he trained from 1869 at the local Artisans’ School of Design in Carlton and by 1872 was at the School of Design, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. It was not until the Munich-trained George Folingsby (1828–91) was appointed master of the Gallery Art School in 1882 that McCubbin received a thorough academic training in figure painting. Folingsby evoked McCubbin’s interest in large-scale history pieces with a pronounced national flavour. From the colonial artist and Swiss émigré Abram-Louis Buvelot, McCubbin absorbed a more intimate, Barbizon-style vision of the Australian landscape. Julian Ashton directed his attention to subjects from contemporary life and introduced him to plein-air painting. In the mid-1880s McCubbin’s growing adherence to plein-air Realism was strengthened by the influence of Portugueseborn Arthur Loureiro (1853–1912) and, more dramatically, by the impact of Tom Roberts, recently returned from Europe in 1885. With Roberts and Arthur Streeton he founded the painting camp at Box Hill, in the suburbs of Melbourne, that became known as the HEIDELBERG SCHOOL. The Realists’ concern with the integrity and significance of the subject shaped McCubbin’s fundamental attitudes to art. Unlike Roberts and Charles Conder (a fellow Heidelberg painter), McCubbin was only marginally influenced by the Aesthetic Movement, and he exhibited a token five works at the famous 9 by 5 Impression Exhibition in Melbourne in 1889.

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