What is Frederick McCubbin?
[[File:Frederick McCubbin - Self-portrait, 1886.jpg|thumb|''Self portrait'' (1886)]] '''Frederick McCubbin''' (25 February 1855 – 20 December 1917) was an [[Australia]]n [[Painting|painter]]. He was a part of the [[Heidelberg School]], which was an important period in the history of Australia's visual arts. McCubbin was born in [[Melbourne]]. McCubbin was taught at William Willmett's West Melbourne Common School and St Paul's School, Swanston Street.<ref name=ADB>{{citation|author=David Thomas|year=1986|url=http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100232b.htm|title=McCubbin, Frederick (Fred) (1855 - 1917)|work=Australian Dictionary of Biography|volume=10|location=Carlton, Victoria|publisher=Melbourne University Press|isbn=9780522842364|oclc=59254986}}</ref> He worked several jobs while studying art at the [[National Gallery of Victoria]]'s [[National Gallery School|School of Design]]. There he met [[Tom Roberts]] and studied under [[Eugene von Guerard]]. He also studied at the Victorian Academy of the Arts. He showed some of his early paintings there in 1876, and again from 1879 to 1882. He sold his first painting there in 1880. By the early 1880s, McCubbin's work had become famous. His paintings won several prizes from the [[National Gallery of Australia|National Gallery]]. By the mid-1880s his painting became focused on the [[The bush|Australian bush]]. This is the work for which he is remembered. In 1888, McCubbin became instructor and master of the School of Design at the National Gallery. He taught several students who themselves became notable Australian artists. He married Annie Moriarty in March 1889. They had seven children.<ref>[http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2010/06/23/2935004.htm Vale Charles McCubbin], 23 June 2010, ABC Gippsland; [http://www.abc.net.au/news/2010-06-22/artist-charles-mccubbin-dies-at-79/876460 Artist Charles McCubbin dies at 79], 22 June 2010, ABC News</ref> McCubbin lived most of his life in Melbourne, and rarely travelled. He and his family moved to [[Mount Macedon, Victori