Frederick McCubbin was an Australian painter and prominent member of the Heidelberg School art movement, also known as Australian Impressionism.
McCubbin was born in Melbourne, the third of eight children of baker Alexander McCubbin and his English wife Anne, ne McWilliams. McCubbin was educated at William Willmetts West Melbourne Common School and St Pauls School, Swanston Street. He later worked for a time as solicitors clerk, a coach painter and in his familys bakery business while studying art at the National Gallery of Victorias School of Design, where he met Tom Roberts and studied under Eugene von Guerard. He also studied at the Victorian Academy of the Arts and exhibited there in 1876 and again from 1879 to 1882, selling his first painting in 1880. In this period, after the death of his father, he became responsible for running the family business.
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