John Fullwood was a painter and etcher, born in Wolverhampton. He studied at the Birmingham School of Art and in Newlyn, Cornwall, as well as Paris, France. He exhibited at the RBA and RBSA and was elected a member of both in 1891. Fullwood is also recorded as an early member of the Birmingham Art Circle. He also showed at the National Gallery, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, the Royal Academy and the Royal Institute of Oil Painters on several occasions as well as in the provinces and the Paris Salon.
Fullwood was both a member of the Royal Cambrian Academy and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and his work is in the collection of Wolverhampton Art Gallery. He was the brother of Albert Henry Fullwood and died in Richmond upon Thames, Surrey.
