Biography of Charles Francis Fuller 1829-1875
Charles Francis Fuller 1829-1875 is in Sculptors.
On 17 Sep 1829 Charles Francis Fuller was born to General Francis Fuller (age 65) at Versailles.
In 1847 Charles Francis Fuller (age 17) joined the army, first with the 14th Foots and afterwards the 12th Lancers. In 1853 he resigned from the British army and traveled to Florence, where he studied with the American sculptor Hiram Powers; the only pupil Powers consented to accept. The London Art Journal reported that he made such progress under Powers that, "in a comparatively short space of time his own studio was much frequented by the English, who took an interest in his works." Fuller maintained his ties to England by exhibiting his works at the Royal Academy, but, like Powers and a group of other American and British expatriate sculptors, made Florence his home living at Casa Frescobaldi, Via Santo Spirito.
On 22 Aug 1863 Charles Francis Fuller (age 33) and Helen Mary Ann Bagge (age 24) were married at Boulogne sur Mer [Map].
On 18 Nov 1865 Charles Henry Dillon 14th Viscount Dillon (age 55) died. His brother Theobald Dominick Dillon 15th Viscount Dillon (age 54) succeeded 15th Viscount Dillon of Costello Gallen in Mayo.
Monument to Charles Henry Dillon 14th Viscount Dillon in All Saints Church, Spelsbury [Map] sculpted by Charles Francis Fuller (age 36).
Charles Henry Dillon 14th Viscount Dillon: On 20 Apr 1810 he was born to Henry Augustus Dillon Lee 13th Viscount Dillon at Dublin.
Theobald Dominick Dillon 15th Viscount Dillon: In 1811 he was born to Henry Augustus Dillon Lee 13th Viscount Dillon. On 30 Nov 1879 Theobald Dominick Dillon 15th Viscount Dillon died. His brother Arthur Edmund Denis Dillon 16th Viscount Dillon succeeded 16th Viscount Dillon of Costello Gallen in Mayo.
In 1869 Charles Francis Fuller (age 39), Thomas Ball and Hiram Powers bought a triangular plot of about an acre between the Via Dante da Castiglione and the Via Farinatadegli Uberti, where they all built villas around a single landscaped park.
In 1875 Charles Francis Fuller (age 45) died. The Times recorded that ‘the studio of the ex-Calvary officer became in a short time well known to English visitors at Florence’ and that ‘his "Rhodope", the Eastern Cinderella, consisting of the undraped figure of a sleeping girl, whose features are moved by some passing dream, while an eagle with arched neck stands at her feet ready to carry away her slipper to the Egyptian potentate, attracted some notice at the time.’
On 12 Jul 1920 [his former wife] Helen Mary Ann Bagge (age 81) died.