George Fuller
(1822-1884)

George Fuller, son of Aaron and Fanny (Negus) Fuller of Deerfield, Massachusetts, attained a national reputation as a painter. As a young man, he worked in a shoe store, a grocery store, and on his father's farm. He and his older half-brother, Augustus, a portrait painter, experimented with the newly-invented daguerreotype. George Fuller studied art with Henry Kirke Brown in Albany, New York, and maintained studios in both Boston and New York during the 1840s and 1850s. He was elected a member of the Boston Artists' Association and Associate of the National Academy of Design. In 1859, Mr. Fuller toured Europe for six months before returning home to assume responsibility for the family farm after the death of his father. He married, in 1861, Agnes Gordon Higginson (1838-1924) and continued to paint as he ran the farm. His work exhibited in Boston in 1876. George Fuller died in 1884, at the height of his career. His paintings can be seen at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Institution, the Art Institute of Chicago and Memorial Hall Museum in Deerfield, Massachusetts .