Born in Britain. Fuller lived in Florence and was a pupil of the American sculptor Hiram Powers (his only pupil according to a letter from Fuller to Powers dated Friday, 22 May 1856). They remained close friends along with another American sculptor, Thomas Ball and formed a small expatriate community in Florence. Around 1870, Fuller modelled a head and bust of Powers. A terracotta version of this bust (or possibly just the head) was exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts, London in 1873 (cat. no. 1414) and there is a bust and head of Powers by Fuller in plaster in the Smithsonian Museum. Prior to this Fuller had served in the army (c.1847-c1853), and was awarded a medal for the ‘Cape War’ (based on a letter to Hiram Powers of 5 November 1856). He was sometimes nicknamed the ‘captain’. Fuller spent some time in Paris at the Institut de France c.1856-57 and in Rome c.1871. He also worked in London, for example in 1869 when he was commissioned to make a portrait of Lady Dudley. Fuller worked primarily as a maker of portraits but also designed memorials and created ideal works. There are works by him in the Royal Collection (‘Undine’ gifted by Queen Victoria to the Prince Consort in 1859) and ‘A Centurion’ which was purchased by Princess Louise and her husband, the Marquess of Lorne (and later 9th Duke of Argyll), while in Florence on their wedding tour in the 1870s. Fuller died in Florence.