Charles Fanning b. 1815

  • Artist (Draughtsman),
  • Artist (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.
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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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