On the left is a studio portrait of Albert Henry Fullwood as a young man. During the First World War he reached the rank of sergeant with the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) and later joined the 1st AIF as an official war artist and was made an honorary lieutenant.

Albert Henry Fullwood's x2 great grandfather and my x5 great grandfather is Daniel Fullwood who was born in Sedgley in 1740 and his grandfather Samuel Fullwood was born in 1801 at Wolverhampton. At that time both Sedgley and Wolverhampton were in the county of Staffordshire.

Samuel, born 1801 moved to Birmingham and married in Edgbaston in 1832 to Ann Benton. They had a son, Henry's father Frederick John Fullwood born 1832.

Henry Fullwood's circle of friends embraced most of bohemian Sydney's leading lights in literature and on the stage. This culminated in a memorable joint farewell to Fullwood and the celebrated bush poet Henry Lawson on the eve of their departure for London in 1900, brought on by the collapse of the local art market.

A member of the Art Society of New South Wales from 1884, Albert "Henry" Fullwood, with Roberts and others who were dissatisfied with the influence of laymen on its committee and was active in setting up the breakaway Society of Artists, Sydney, which was confined to professionals; he served on its council. Henry afterwards worked on the Sydney Mail and other illustrated papers of the time. He kept up his painting, and in 1892 two of his water-colours were purchased for the national gallery at Sydney.

In 1895 Henry took a leading part in forming the Society of Artists at Sydney and was a member of its first council. He returned to Europe in 1900 by way of America, holding on the way a very successful exhibition of his work New York City. He made London his headquarters, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1901, 1904, and later years, and also at various exhibitions in Europe. During the war he was a sergeant in the R.A.M.C. and later an Australian official war artist. He returned to Sydney in 1920 and worked chiefly in water-colour and etching.

In London Henry maintained the closest of relations with most of his fellow British-Australian expatriates, especially Tom Roberts. He successfully exhibited at the Royal Academy -- alongside John Fullwood born Wolverhampton (1855-1930; who is his third cousin once removed) -- the New English Art Club and the Paris Salon, as well as holding one-man shows at the Chenil and Goupil Galleries. 'Home' was the Chelsea Arts Club. He was much admired by such notable English artists as Frank Brangwyn, Sir Alfred East and Sir A.J. Munnings.

On 13th October, 1896 Henry married Clyda Blanche, daughter of J. H. Newman, a photographer; she bore him two sons. In 1900 he auctioned his work and took his family first to New York for a year, thence to London. He visited Capetown in 1903. He found plenty of black and white work in London, exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts from 1906 and the Salon de la Société des Artistes Français, Paris. A member of the Chelsea Arts Club, he was a friend of English artists and Bertram Mackennal.