Frederick Mccubbin The Letter, Painting ID:: 77086 new24/Frederick Mccubbin-738936.jpg
The Letter, The Letter, painting, oil on canvas, 69.1 x 51.0 cm, by Frederick McCubbin
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Frederick Mccubbin Forest Macedon Painting ID:: 77114 new24/Frederick Mccubbin-568955.jpg
Forest Macedon 1910, oil on canvas, 35.0 x 25.0 cm
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Frederick Mccubbin Study of Poultry Painting ID:: 77120 new24/Frederick Mccubbin-584733.jpg
Study of Poultry 1908, oil on canvas, 24.0 x 35.0 cm
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Frederick Mccubbin Autumn Afternoon Painting ID:: 77122 new24/Frederick Mccubbin-678398.jpg
Autumn Afternoon oil on canvas, 34 x 50 cm) by Frederick McCubbin (1855?C1917).
The painting is in a private collection.
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Frederick Mccubbin At the Falling of the Year Painting ID:: 77123 new24/Frederick Mccubbin-573784.jpg
At the Falling of the Year 1886, oil on canvas, 30.6 x 15.1 cm) by Frederick McCubbin (1855?C1917).
The painting is in a private collection.
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Frederick Mccubbin Hillside Macedon Painting ID:: 77126 new24/Frederick Mccubbin-538236.jpg
Hillside Macedon 1905, oil on canvas, 79.5 x 102.2 cm
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Frederick Mccubbin Brighton Landscape Painting ID:: 77127 new24/Frederick Mccubbin-467364.jpg
Brighton Landscape 1905, oil on canvas, 25.5 x 61.5 cm) by Frederick McCubbin (1855?C1917).
The painting is in a private collection
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Frederick Mccubbin Chickens Painting ID:: 77128 new24/Frederick Mccubbin-698334.jpg
Chickens 1901, oil on canvas, 24.0 x 34.5 cm
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Frederick Mccubbin Labouring in the Bush Painting ID:: 77129 new24/Frederick Mccubbin-778779.jpg
Labouring in the Bush oil on canvas, 65.0 x 77.5 cm) by Frederick McCubbin (1855?C1917).
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Frederick Mccubbin The Morning Train Painting ID:: 77130 new24/Frederick Mccubbin-554358.jpg
The Morning Train 1887, oil on canvas, 24.1 x 44.3 cm) by Frederick McCubbin (1855?C1917).
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Frederick Mccubbin Collins Street Painting ID:: 77131 new24/Frederick Mccubbin-484783.jpg
Collins Street 1915, oil on canvas, 25.0 x 35.3 cm) by Frederick McCubbin (1855?C1917).
The painting is in the collection of the Geelong Gallery
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Frederick Mccubbin Kitchen at the old King Street Bakery Painting ID:: 77132 new24/Frederick Mccubbin-994698.jpg
Kitchen at the old King Street Bakery 1884, oil on canvas, 50.6 x 61.2 cm) by Frederick McCubbin (1855?C1917).
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Frederick Mccubbin tree glade Painting ID:: 77133 new24/Frederick Mccubbin-795454.jpg
tree glade 1897, oil on canvas, 170.1 x 138.4 cm) by Frederick McCubbin (1855?C1917).
The painting is in the collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia.
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Frederick Mccubbin A Bush Burial Painting ID:: 77134 new24/Frederick Mccubbin-476364.jpg
A Bush Burial (1890, oil on canvas, 122.5 x 224.5 cm) by Frederick McCubbin (1855?C1917).
The painting is in the collection of the Geelong Gallery.
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Frederick Mccubbin Sawing Timber Painting ID:: 77135 new24/Frederick Mccubbin-748737.jpg
Sawing Timber 1907, oil on canvas, 63.5 x 83.8 cm) by Frederick McCubbin (1855?C1917).
The painting is in a private collection.
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Frederick Mccubbin Melbourne Painting ID:: 77167 new24/Frederick Mccubbin-378338.jpg
Melbourne 1882, oil-on-canvas, 48.4 cm x 66.4 cm
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Frederick Mccubbin Princes Bridge Painting ID:: 77210 new24/Frederick Mccubbin-773964.jpg
Princes Bridge 1908, oil-on-canvas, 61.5 cm x 92.5 cm
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Frederick Mccubbin The Letter Painting ID:: 80509 new24/Frederick Mccubbin-684564.jpg
The Letter oil on canvas
Date 1884
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Frederick Mccubbin Down on His Luck Painting ID:: 95141 new26/Frederick Mccubbin-745434.jpg
Down on His Luck 1889
Type Oil on canvas
Dimensions 114.5 cm x 152.8 cm
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Australian Painter, 1855-1917
By the early 1880s, his work began to attract considerable attention and won a number of prizes from the National Gallery, including a 30-pound first prize in 1883 in their annual student exhibition, and by the mid-1880s began to concentrate more on the works of the Australian bush which made him most famous. In 1883, he received first prize in the first annual Gallery students' exhibition, for best studies in colour and drawing. In 1888, he became instructor and master of the School of Design at the National Gallery. In this position he taught a number of students who themselves became prominent Australian artists, including Charles Conder and Arthur Streeton. He continued to paint through the first two decades of the 20th century, though by the beginning of World War I his health began to fail. He travelled to England in 1907 and visited Tasmania, but aside from these relatively short excursions lived most of his life in Melbourne. McCubbin married Annie Moriarty in March, 1889. They had seven children, of whom their son Louis also became an artist. In 1901 McCubbin and his family moved to Mount Macedon, where he was inspired by the surrounding bush and has experimented with the light and its effects on colour in nature. In 1912,