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Albert Henry Fullwood (1863-1930), artist, was born on 15 March 1863 at Erdington, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, son of Frederick John Fullwood, jeweller, and his wife Emma, née Barr. From 15, Henry, as he was known, attended Birmingham Institute on a scholarship. On completing his studies he migrated to Sydney in 1883.

Employed first by John Sands Ltd, Fullwood worked as a black and white artist for the Picturesque Atlas of Australasia in 1883-86. He travelled extensively, including visits to Thursday Island, Torres Strait, Palmerston (Darwin), Port Moresby, New Guinea, and later New Zealand. His illustrations were workmanlike but diverged little from those of other staff artists such as Julian R. Ashton. In the 1880s he shared a studio with Frank Mahony; with Ashton they spent the weekends painting. For a time he lived with friends Tom Roberts and Arthur Streeton at their camp at Sirius Cove in Sydney. Fullwood, encouraged by Livingston Hopkins, also returned to etching. He contributed drawings to the London Graphic and Black and White as well as to the Australian Town and Country Journal, the Bulletin, Illustrated Sydney News and the Sydney Mail. In the centennial issue of the Sydney Mail (21 January 1888) he made a large wood-engraving of the city.

Soon after the outbreak of World War I Fullwood joined the Allied Arts Corps. From April 1915 to November 1917, when he was discharged as medically unfit, he served as a sergeant in the Royal Army Medical Corps, and was posted to No.3 London General Hospital, Wandsworth, with fellow Australian artists, Roberts, Streeton, George Coates and Miles Evergood. In 1918, with the rank of honorary lieutenant in the Australian Imperial Force, he went to France as official artist to the 5th Division and painted scenes of the Western Front, mainly watercolours, for the Australian War Memorial, Canberra.

This article was first published in hardcopy in (adb.anu.edu.au) (adb.anu.edu.au) Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 8, (MUP), 1981

A. H. FULLWOOD.
DEATH ANNOUNCED.
A VERSATILE ARTIST.
Mr. A. Henry Fullwood, the well-known Sydney artist, one of the pioneers of his profession in this State, died on Wednesday night at the War Memorial Hospital, Waverley, after a brief illness. Mr. Fullwood was a link between the traditions of the past and those of the present in the history of art in New South Wales. A Birmingham man, trained at the South Kensington school and in Paris, he came out to Sydney in 1881, when, as he used to say, the artists of Australia were a merry lot of Bohemians, and one of their leading figures was Phil May, then working for the Sydney "Bulletin," with his gaze fixed upon the chances of a career in Europe. There was not much demand in those days for serious art among private buyers, and Fullwood accepted an engagement as one of the artists for "Picturesque Atlas," and in this capacity toured Northern Australia, in the days when travelling must have been exceedingly difficult. This engagement gave him the opportunity to show his ability in black and white work, in which he achieved so much success then and in later years he joined the Art Society — now the Royal Art Society — in 1884, making his first appearance on its walls that year as an exhibitor with a picture called "Morning," priced at ten guineas. He was one of the original members of the Sketch Club, formed in Sydney about that time. For 19 years Mr. Fullwood thus played his part as a prominent figure in art in this city, showing his versatility in all mediums, oils, water-colours, and black and white work, until 1900, when he returned to Europe. He stayed there for twenty years, and in that period was a constant exhibitor in London and Paris, showing pictures for many years in succession at the Royal Academy. He was a friend of Frank Brangwyn, A. J. Munnings, Sir Alfred East, Sir Bertram Mackenna, and other noted men, and it is significant of his ability that these distinguished judges have secured specimens of his work for their own collections.
Ten years ago Mr. Fullwood came back to Australia, to resume in Sydney his association with art, and to become again a leading figure in all movements designed for its advancement. In the course of his career he did a great deal of work for the " Sydney Mail," and in 1888 drew the panorama of Sydney, which adorned the special issue of that  journal published for the Australian centennial celebrations. This is an exceedingly spacious view of the city, from a high point which brought St Andrew's Cathedral and the Town Hall into the immediate foreground. The design, carried out as a woodcut, was one of the largest in this medium that the "Sydney Mail"  has produced, and probably constitutes a record for Australian illustrations in the woodcut form.
Mr. Fullwood, who was in England when the European war broke out, promptly enlisted as a sergeant in the R.A.M.C., and became one of the official artists on the western front. In his later years in Sydney he devoted his attention particularly to watercolours and etchings, and showed in these, up to a few years ago, all the fluent command of line and insight which had marked his work in his prime.