Isaac Fuller

Background

Isaac Fuller was born in 1606 in United Kingdom.

Education

Isaac Fuller studied under the French Baroque painter François Perrier in Paris.

Career

Isaac Fuller was an influential teacher and produced the earliest British drawing book in 1654.

He worked in Oxford and London. Fuller painted altarpieces for Magdalen and All Souls Colleges and an altarpiece for the chapel at Wadham College in Oxford and did decorative painting for taverns in London, including mythological scenes for the Mitre Tavern, Fenchurch Street, but these works have disappeared.

Besides, while at Oxford he painted portraits, and also copied William Dobson's Decollation of St. John, altering the heads to portraits of his own friends. As a portrait painter Fuller had some real power, and self-portrait, in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, shows him in a curious head-dress. Other portraits painted by Fuller were of Samuel Butler, Edward Pierce the carver, and John Ogilby, the author (these two were in the Strawberry Hill Collection, and the latter was engraved by William Camden Edwards), Norris, the king's frame-maker (a picture much praised by Sir Peter Lely), John Cleveland, Sir Kenelm Digby, and Jasper Latham, the sculptor.

Fuller made some etchings, including some plates of Tritons and mythological subjects in the style of François Perrier.

Fuller died on July 17, 1672 in London, United Kingdom.

Achievements

• Isaac Fuller was best known as portrait and history painter. His most noted portraits were "Sir William Petty" and "Edward Pierce".

Works

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• painting

  • King Charles II and Colonel William Carlos in the Royal Oak

  • Edward Pierce

  • King Charles II and Jane Lane Riding to Bristol

  • King Charles II at Whiteladies (King Charles II; Richard Penderel)

  • Self-portrait

  • Sir William Petty

  • King Charles II in Boscobel Wood

  • King Charles II on Humphrey Penderel's Mill Horse

Connections

Fuller had a son, Isaac Fuller the Younger, who worked mostly as a coach-painter.

Son:

Isaac Fuller the Younger

teacher:

François Perrier