Elizabeth Fullick was born in Alton, England in 1846 to John Fullick and Sarah Pharo. Around 1854, the Fullick family emigrated to America and settled in Coldwater, Michigan. John Fullick passed away in 1861, leaving the family in a state of financial uncertainty. As a result, the elder Fullick sisters formed a millinery shop to make ends meet. Elizabeth had dreams of attending college and becoming a teacher. She enrolled at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York as a freshman in 1870 at the age of twenty-four, but her studies were repeatedly postponed due to family obligations and the millinery shop in Michigan. After much persistence and with a focus on art, Elizabeth received her degree from Vassar eight years later in 1878. She then spent five years teaching art in the Pacific Northwest (two years in Portland, Oregon and three years in Tacoma, Washington) earning money to travel abroad for further art instruction. In Europe, Elizabeth studied in Munich, Dresden, and Italy from 1888-90, and at The Académie Delécluse in Paris from 1890-96. She trained under Georges Callot, Paul-Louis DeLance, Charles Lasar, and Julien Dupré, among others. Fullick exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1893 and stateside at the Black and White Club, Durand-Ruel Galleries, the Packer Institute, and Klackner Gallery. She taught at the Staten Island Academy from 1896-1901 and lectured on drawing, painting, and art history at Dana Hall in Wellesley, Massachusetts from 1902-13. Her art studios were located at 415 Sixth St. and 344 W. 58th St., New York. Elizabeth Fullick died in the Bronx in February 1915 at age sixty-nine, seemingly unmarried and without heirs.
