Lucia Fairchild Fuller (December 6, 1870 – May 21, 1924)[1] was an American painter and member of the New Hampshire Cornish Art Colony.

Fuller created a mural entitled The Women of Plymouth for the Woman's Building at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893.

(née Nelson) and Charles Fairchild,[2][3] who served during under President Grover Cleveland's administration as the Secretary of the Treasury Department.

She then continued her studies at the Art Students League of New York, under William Merritt Chase and the muralist, Henry Siddons Mowbray.

[12] After a multi-year love affair, Fairchild married in 1893 her fellow student, the American painter Henry Brown Fuller.

[6] Fairchild Fuller resorted to living in a dark and small room in New York City, using her significant social connections to contract for commissions, producing nearly two hundred by 1903.

[21] In 1905, Fairchild Fuller painted a second self-portrait, In the Looking Glass, a 6 x 4 inch watercolor on ivory, wherein she depicted herself as a mature woman with eyeglasses, looking directly at the viewer.

[22] Fairchild Fuller moved to New York City, where she taught at the Art Students League in the years 1910-11 and 1914-15.

[17] In 1920, Fairchild Fuller published an article about her friend from the Cornish Art Colony, the sculptor, Frances Grimes.

[17] Fairchild Fuller's recurrent illness forced her to return to her father's family hometown, Madison, Wisconsin in 1918.