Charles Fanning b. 1815

  • Artist (Draughtsman), (Painter)
Charles Fanning taught drawing on the Isle of Jersey before a stay of approximately five years painting and drawing in Sydney. He then moved to Cape Town, South Africa, teaching drawing again for over a thirty years he spent there.
Talk | Version history | Updated Oct. 19, 2011 | Created Jan. 1, 1992
Name
Charles Fanning
Birth date
1815
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
  • Artist (Painter)
Residence
  • c.1848 St Helier's, Jersey, Channel Islands, United Kingdom
  • 1853- 1885 Cape Town, South Africa
Other Occupation
  • Art teacher
Arrival
  • 1848
Active Period
  • 1848- 1885
Languages
  • English
Is Indigenous
No
Initial Record Data Source
  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870

painter and art teacher, had been a drawing master at St Helier’s on the Isle of Jersey before he came to Sydney in 1848. The following year 'Professor Fanning’ was listed as a practising artist of Parramatta Street (Broadway) when he showed five works in the second exhibition of the Society for the Promotion of the Fine Arts in Australia, including at least one history painting, Prince Charles and Prince James, after Vandyke , a religious study titled Eli and Samuel and Fir Tree . Another work, Flowers , was 'drawn and coloured with great truth and “fidelity”’, according to the Sydney Morning Herald of 16 June 1849. Charles Fanning lived in Cape Town, South Africa, from about 1853 to 1885 and for many years was drawing master at the South African Institute.

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Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1992
Last updated:
2011
associate of
Society for the Promotion of the Fine Arts in Australia
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
Fir Tree
Eli and Samuel
Prince Charles and Prince James, after Vandyke
Flowers
Date
1849
Second Exhibition of the Society for the Promotion of the Fine Arts in Australia
1849
Exhibition ()
Sydney, NSW
Citations:
  • Gordon-Brown, A., (1975), Pictorial Africana, (Place: Cape Town, South Africa)