Erskine Nicol
| Erskine Nicol | |
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| Born | 3 July 1825 |
| Died | 8 March 1904 (aged 78) |
| Nationality | Scottish |
| Education | William Allan |
| Known for | oil painting |
Erskine Nicol (3 July 1825 – 1904) was a Scottish painter.
Career
He was born in Leith on 3 July 1825. [1]
He was a student at the Trustees' Academy, Edinburgh. He studied with Sir William Allan, and Thomas Duncan.[1]
Nicol taught in Dublin, Ireland, from 1845–50, at the height of the Irish famine, and identified with the oppression of the Irish people and much of his work portrays the injustices inflicted upon the Irish population during the 19th century.[2]
In 1850, he moved to Edinburgh. He was made an Associate of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1851 and an Academician in 1859. [1]
Nicol exhibited at the Royal Academy and was made an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1866. He also exhibited at the Royal Hibernian Academy and the British Institution. In 1905 the Royal Scottish Academy held a commemorative exhibition.
He died at The Dell, Feltham, on 8 March 1904.[1]
Family
Nicol was twice married: first in 1851 to Janet Watson, who died in 1863, leaving a son (Mr. John Watson Nicol, a painter) and a daughter; second in 1865 to Margaret Mary Wood, who survived him, and by whom he had two sons (the elder, Mr. Erskine Edwin Nicol, a painter) and a daughter. [1]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Meldrum 1912.
- ↑ Erskine Nicol Contemporary Irish Art. Retrieved September 04, 2007.
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Meldrum, David Storrar (1912). "Nicol, Erskine". In Lee, Sidney. Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement. London: Smith, Elder & Co. - Soden, Joanna. "Nicol, Erskine (1825–1904)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/35235. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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