Isaac Fuller was an English painter. Trained in France, he worked in Oxford and London. His works included portraits, religious subjects and decorative paintings.
Occupation
painter, copper engraver
Citizenship
Kingdom of England
Born
1606
Died
July 17, 1672
Overview
Isaac Fuller (1606(?) – 1672) was an English painter. Trained in France, he worked in Oxford and London. His works included portraits, religious subjects and decorative paintings.
Early life and education
Fuller is often said to have been born in 1606, but may have been born as late as 1620. According to Bainbrigg Buckeridge, writing at the beginning of the 18th century, he studied under the French Baroque painter François Perrier in Paris.
Work in Oxford
During the earlier part of the 1660s Fuller decorated the chapels of Magdalen and All Souls Colleges at Oxford. His work at Magdalen representing the Resurrection is lost, but a print survives, showing a complex and ambitious composition derived ultimately from Michelangelo. At All Souls he painted a fresco of The Last Judgement, which is also lost, although some additional panels by Fuller, originally fitted between the roof-trusses in the chancel, survive. John Evelyn said that the fresco would not last long, being "too full of nakeds". He also painted an altarpiece for the chapel at Wadham College, using an unusual technique in which the image was drawn on grey cloth in brown and white crayons, and then ironed into the fabric. Joseph Addison wrote a poem in praise of it.
