Frederick Harold Cress AM (10 July 1938[1] – 14 October 2009)[2] was a British painter who migrated to Australia and won the Archibald Prize in 1988 with a portrait of John Beard.
Cress was born in Poona, British Raj, but went to England with his parents in 1948, when he was ten.
[3] Cress met the painter Anne Judell and married her in 1967; they divorced in 1991.
He returned to figurative painting in the late 80s after he won the Archibald Prize with a portrait of his friend and colleague, John Beard.
In 2009 he declined to continue with treatment while he worked on his last exhibition, entitled 'End Game One', held in Australian Galleries, Paddington.