Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Florence Fuller

Florence Fuller

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The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/August 2, 2014 by BencherliteTalk 07:01, 20 July 2014 (UTC)



Florence Fuller (1867–1946) was a South African-born Australian artist. Originally from Port Elizabeth, Fuller migrated as a child to Melbourne with her family. There she trained with her uncle Robert Hawker Dowling and teacher Jane Sutherland and took classes at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School, becoming a professional artist in the late 1880s. In 1892 she left Australia, travelling first to South Africa, where she met and painted for Cecil Rhodes, and then on to Europe. Between 1895 and 1904 her works were exhibited at the Paris Salon and London's Royal Academy. In 1904, Fuller returned to Australia to live in Perth. She became active in the Theosophical Society and painted some of her best-known works. From 1908, Fuller traveled extensively, living in India and England before ultimately settling in Sydney where she was the inaugural teacher of life drawing at a women's art school. By 1914 Fuller was represented in four public galleries—three in Australia and one in South Africa—a record for an Australian female painter. She subsequently suffered mental illness and sank into obscurity. She died in 1946.
 * Most recent similar article(s): A few bios of female figures in music or drama; none in visual arts
 * Main editors: Hamiltonstone
 * Promoted: 2013
 * Reasons for nomination: Would have liked to nominate it for July 17 (anniversary of her death), but that is taken, and it isn't really important.
 * Support as nominator. hamiltonstone (talk) 07:45, 28 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Support. Great to highlight a quality article on an accomplished woman. –Prototime (talk · contribs) 02:03, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Support. Wonderful to showcase a high-level page on a reputed female. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 19:28, 6 July 2014 (UTC)